Spiritual Hunger

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I enjoy going out to eat at different restaurants. Maybe with my husband, parents, in laws, friends, Etc. Can I pick one favorite restaurant? No not really I can think of one right now. I'm not very picky when it comes to food. Just don't give me bitter melon, peas, lima beans, or olive.   Just don't like the taste and or texture. But, other than those things I'll eat anything!

Maybe, you guys are like me when it comes to this. Well, as soon as you get to the restaurant the Busboys or waiters put a cup of water on the table and probably a bowl/basket on your table filled with sliced up bread. We didn't even order it. It was free and it's complimentary. I think the fact that we don't have to pay for it places a sense of more enjoyment I'll be eating our priceless delicacy. :-)

So, now I want to do. Well, of course, we're going to start. I tried to limit myself to not that much. Unless I can't help myself because it will be in the bread they give at Red Lobster!

Anyway. What's the reason we want to go to a restaurant? Well duh, we're hungry! So then we order our food, and the bread is still on the table. And our stomachs are still growling! By the time the meal we ordered arrives at our table, we find ourselves filled up from eating too much bread. The one or two pieces grew to eating three or four pieces...

Looks like we're going to be asking for a doggy bag pretty early on in the meal.  What's coming to mind now is my spiritual hunger.  I would say there is a portion of my day where I seek fellowship with God, read his devotionals or the Bible. This right here constitutes time with God and encouraging other people in addition.

Then there are other times during the day and do other things. Those things take the majority of my time.  Those things will make my spiritual hunger diminish.

Please think about it. It makes total sense!  Let's say crazy and ball drinking. Drinking is not a sin. However, drinking too much well cause easy to get drunk and maybe need you to do other things that will cause you to sin.

If your mind is all wrapped up in that, there goes our spiritual hunger. Folks, do you need to spend more time with God in order to satisfy your spiritual hunger? I think I do.

Matthew 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Psalm 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

John 7:37

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Psalm 42:1-2 

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Matthew 25:35

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Psalm 143:6
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 107:9
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Psalm 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Romans 12:20

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

John 4:14

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

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