Are You Hungry or Are You Filled?

In Rev 3:20, Jesus declares, “'Behold , I stand at the door and [knock]; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me’." What a great invitation. When our hearts are truly hungry, we desire God’s presence and His mind (Proverbs 2:1-6). We want his wisdom.  We want to come and sup with Him. I have a friend, who like Daniel, tries to meet with Y'Shua for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to eat spiritual food three times a day. David said, morning, evening, and night, He shall hear my voice (Psalm 55:17).

God encourages us some 700 years before Christ with these words: "Ho! Ever one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk. Without money and without cost. "Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance” (Isa 55:1-11).

We are actually blessed when we faint with hunger for God, his righteousness, and his kingdom: Matthew 5:6 and Luke 6:21 proclaim, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” In truth, “The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil” (Psalm 34:10).

When we try to fill ourselves with things, people, and ourselves, we feel even more empty. Psalm 22:26 gives us great hope because in our great pain, we will experience release, “The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!”

God may make a decision  to humble “ [us] and let [us] be hungry, and fed [us] with manna which  [we] did not know, nor did [our] fathers know, that He might make [we]understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. (Deut.8:3).  His words are true sustenance. In fact, Y’Shua removes our hunger alone for He is "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:33-35).

I saw spiritually hungry people in Nicaragua. People would stop us on the road for a Bible and for their family members.  Multiple families lived in one house often, and each family household wanted their own Bible.  God gave me Amos 8:11-13 to describe this phenomena: "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD. ” Their hunger reminds of the psalmist’s cry, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for Thee, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?”(Psalm 42:1-2).

Do you remember that song, "Hungry?" Does that describe us? Can we not wait to enter His presence?

Hungry,
M.J.