Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? What are you hungering for? What will quench your thirst? Do you seek satisfaction? Where are you looking to satisfy your hunger and your thirst? Will you turn from the temporary and seek the permanent? Will you seek satisfaction from God?
Just as we do today, Scripture often uses hungering and thirsting as an analogy for something else. We may say that a team is hungering for a championship. Or that an individual was hungry to achieve a milestone and worked extremely hard to finally achieve it.
Our soul’s hunger and thirst as well. Whether we recognize it or not, whether we admit it or not, our soul has a hunger and thirst that only God can satisfy. Unfortunately, far too many don’t recognize it and some who do will not admit it. They will continue to seek to fill their desires with many earthly things in many ways. They will make excuses for one way not working and try another.
If we are willing to recognize God is the only one who can satisfy our hunger and thirst, our soul’s desire, we can begin to seek fulfillment from him. As we seek fulfillment from God and begin experiencing his blessing through his amazing grace, we experience a fulfillment beyond our imagination.
Just as God promises through the prophet Isaiah, we can go to God with nothing to give and purchase what we need. God seeks only our heart. He seeks only our devotion to him. We cannot buy God’s grace with money nor material things. Yet, when we fully give our heart to him, we realize all that we have belongs to him anyway.
I pray we all take our hunger and thirst to God. I pray we recognize that God is the only one who can satisfy. I pray each one of us will admit God can satisfy and fully give our hearts to him. Take your hunger to God. Take your thirst to God. Know that God can satisfy. Give God your whole heart.
Isaiah 55:1
Hear, everyone 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 price.
Marty Pressey 