Very often, in the last stage of life, a person completely loses their appetite for food. Life requires the sustenance that food provides. All the protein, minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, fat and sugar are essential in building the new cells that are continually replacing the old. We need the calories that produce the energy that we are burning as we live and breathe. The complete loss of an appetite is a warning sign that something has gone wrong.
Now apply this same principle to our spiritual life. Jesus states that those who are spiritually ravenous will be filled and are living in a state of blessing. It is no mystery as to why hungry people will be filled, because, hungry people tend to look for food--and when they have found it, they will feed themselves until they are no longer hungry. The bigger question is this: Why are spiritually hungry people blessed?
They are blessed, because as they "fill up" and satisfy their spiritual hunger with spiritual food--they have the spiritual sustenance that will cause them to grow and create the necessary energy to serve. Spiritually hungry people are the driving force that causes the Church to surge forward. Please read this again: "Spiritually hungry people are the driving force that causes the Church to surge forward!" On the other hand, without spiritual sustenance, Believers grow weak, lethargic and sickly. Are you hungry and thirsty?
Prayer: "Dear Father, I am blessed by Your love, and continually in need of Your grace. I often fall short of who I want to be, but in the midst of my failure You are a voice of encouragement. Your Word tells me that if I draw close to You that You will draw close to me, so Father, create in me a desire--a hunger and a thirst--a growing appetite to be Godly. As I grow in You may I ever bring glory to Your great name!" Amen
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