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Have you ever known what it was like to be truly hungry?  I’m not talking about it being lunchtime and your stomach is growling!  I mean, going days or weeks without hardly anything to eat.  I don’t think anyone that I know has ever had that kind of hunger.    It makes me so sad to see those starving children on those commercials asking for help.  If you were to talk to someone from a poverty stricken country that has known that type of hunger, I imagine they would say that we take food and other “luxuries” for granted here in America.

I think the same can be said for our hunger for God.  We are so spoiled.  We can go to church anytime we want to.  We can pick up our Bibles and read it anytime we want to.  Most of us have multiple Bibles in our homes.  We have access to many free devotional books.  We can even pull up sermons online and watch them without leaving our homes!  We have some of the best christian music available at our finger tips (literally, on our phones!).  Alot of people in alot of other countries do not have this kind of access.  And I think that we take all of these things for granted.  (Much like we do our food.)

God is so easily accessible to us that we don’t really feel the need to hunger for Him.  We go through the motions of the christian life.  We go to church rather than be the church.  We “serve” God in many ways in our church and we are content with just doing, rather than having an intimate relationship with Him.

“Good things have become the enemy of the best things.”*.  I read that statement in my daily devotional this morning.  It makes you think doesn’t it?  When we settle for good things, we might be missing out on the best things!

When we fill our time with good things, I’m talking to the Christians now, we do and work in the church and we become so religious that we never become spiritual.*   We get so caught up in doing things for Him that we forget about Him.*

We feed our bodies junk food to the point that we aren’t hungry for the food that is good for us.  And we do the same thing with our spiritual walk with God.  We do all of these “good things” and we miss out on the best things.  An intimate walk with our Father. Our creator.

Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”  All we have to do is seek it.

I want to encourage you to seek out this hunger that I am speaking of.  Seek His presence.  Pray for Him to fill you with His spirit!  Ask Him and He will fan the flame that has gotten down to a flicker!

*Tommy Tenney – The God Chasers