Responding to Hunger

It is unlikely that you are going to wait until you understand digestion before you eat. Yahweh has designed your body to tell you to eat, so you do. Hunger is what we call the motivational speech that your body gives your mind.

Hungering for Him should be motivating you to be desperate to satisfy the need your spirit has for His Spirit. Since we are products of a culture in which there is always more than enough food, we probably haven’t been truly hungry for decades. If we waited until we were truly hungry before we ate, our bodies would be so specific in their instructions as to inform us about what food we should be eating.

Our spirits want to do that, but we are sometimes numb to the voice. A lunch prayer that scares me is, “Lord, make us truly thankful for these Thy many blessings.” It makes me think I am praying that I will starve for a while so I truly appreciate Brussels sprouts or sardines or anything else I can get my hands on. I should be so intent on praying for spiritual hunger. Lord, make me so desperate for Your words that I will happily devour any instruction from You and leap into obedience because of recognition of the astonishing value of it!