Hungry Again

 

I can remember being sick a few weeks before school was out for the summer. I had a headache and felt dizzy. I later realized that I had waited too long to eat. I had a hungry headache, and believe me, it wasn’t a good feeling. When I finally did eat, I couldn’t seem to get full. I ate, went to bed, and woke during the night hungry. I nibbled on crackers and went back to bed again. When I got up the next morning, I was still starving. After a few hours and some breakfast, this finally wore off. Strange, huh? But, what does this have to do with God?

So often we hunger for God, but we don’t recognize that hunger. We know we need something, but we just don’t know what. We think we need another drink…another car…a new house…to have another affair…to find a new man or woman. We don’t realize that what we are longing for is God. We are not longing for financial things or physical relief. We are longing to be held in God’s loving arms. We need a closer relationship with him. Things will never be able to fill that void. That is why after we have had that drink, we are still thirst. After that affair or midnight rendezvous, we are still lonely. We need a closer relationship with Jesus. So, yes, we are hungry again after we have over-eat and over-indulged. Things and people can never replace God.

And, yes, I am guilty too. I am guilty of trying to satisfy a spiritual need with a physical one. Earlier in my walk with God, I did not know how to recognize this longing for what it really was. I thank God that now I am able to realize that I need him. I need God. Just as Jesus explained to the woman at the well, He has living water and if you drink of it, you will never thirst again.

The woman at the well: John 4: 7-30

Out of your belly: John 7: 38