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The word “hunger,” by definition, means, “having a strong desire, craving, displaying the need for food.” In reality, however, hunger is not just for food, but humans also crave physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual nourishment. We, humans, are needy beings — in addition to food and water — we need many more things to live well: money, job, sports, love, wisdom, knowledge, security, approval, achievement, fulfillment, etc.
In physical hunger, we feel discomfort or weakness caused by a lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. In spiritual hunger, likewise, we crave “food” for the spirit, without which we cannot survive.
It is true what Jesus said: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God” (Luke 4-4). put it this way, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, only by God, the Creator made known through Jesus Christ ” God is Spirit and He is the only One who can satisfy the spiritual hunger of humanity.
In the beginning according to the word of God humans were created to bring pleasure and glory to God. Everything was in perfect harmony before sin entered the world. The first sin of humanity was committed through eating, which then resulted in death and separation from God Genesis 3
Adam did not murder, steal, tell lies, nor commit adultery; he disobeyed God by a simple act of eating, which forever changed the course of human history. Paul, on another occasion, expressed his anguish concerning enemies of the cross of Christ whose god is their belly with earthly things in their minds (Philippians 3 18-19 ).
There is a strong and direct correlation between eating and hunger. In between the two is appetite, which determines the direction of our lives, John Piper stated that , “Whether it be the cravings of our stomachs, the passionate desire for possessions or power, or the longings of our spirits for God.” Our physical hunger of worldly, perishable things should point us to a deeper, higher level of spiritual hunger of godly, eternal matters. We must come to a point where we can get before God and say, “I spread out my hands to You; my soul longs for You like a thirsty land” (Psalm 143:6). We will never have a close relationship with God until we thirst after Him. That is why Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.”
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We draw our needs and desires from the well of salvation. But aren’t there some times that you are in Christ and some of your needs are on hold? Like when God promise Abraham a child. The promise didn’t come till after 25 years later? Does that means he did not stretch his arms?
For us in this part of the world. Our economy has played a lot of roles in making humanity hungry. In an economy whereby you can’t get a job there are lots of bills to pay and the income is insufficient.
We just keep straching our arms to heaven.
For our long with help??.
Deep this is reality for us to continue to seek God the more