The more I seek to understand people, their hearts and just humanity in general, the more I realize how desperate and inclined we are to want. There is an insatiable yearning to attain more and more, always. We pursue that more by doing things we believe will make us happy. We hunger for that happiness and it drives our every pursuit.
There are many examples of this throughout history, the first, and I think one of the best example is from the very beginning. We look at Adam and Eve, who are living with God's presence before the fall, before any reconciliation was even necessary. They lived in peace with God and there was no sin. Yet, they wanted more and they tried to attain more by being disobedient to God. In the end, it led to a fallen world full of lost people who need to be rescued.
Because everyone seeks for the more. Whether you are old, young, rich, poor, healthy or sick, we all want more and we complain when we don't receive it. It is a universal dissatisfaction that has continued for centuries. Even if we could attain everything we think we could ever want and need, our hungry hearts would not be satisfied. All that we crave is so vast we cannot attain it ourselves. This shows us that we were not made for earthly things, things that soon will perish. This clearly shows us that we are unable to reach satisfaction by our own efforts. The only way the worldly hunger we experience will vanish is when Christ invades our hearts, and all of the emptiness our hearts possess. Then and only then will we rest in the satisfaction of Christ.
Also, whats beautiful about our hungry hearts is the simple fact that God designed them. When we become believers and our hearts start to crave, we pursue Christ and we can feel satisfied. And although that satisfaction is complete, if we crave more, God can graciously give more. When our hearts hunger and we pursue more of God, we get more of God and that is amazing.
May we pray that our every deepest desire would be to want more of God and that our lives would display that, all for His glory.
There are many examples of this throughout history, the first, and I think one of the best example is from the very beginning. We look at Adam and Eve, who are living with God's presence before the fall, before any reconciliation was even necessary. They lived in peace with God and there was no sin. Yet, they wanted more and they tried to attain more by being disobedient to God. In the end, it led to a fallen world full of lost people who need to be rescued.
Because everyone seeks for the more. Whether you are old, young, rich, poor, healthy or sick, we all want more and we complain when we don't receive it. It is a universal dissatisfaction that has continued for centuries. Even if we could attain everything we think we could ever want and need, our hungry hearts would not be satisfied. All that we crave is so vast we cannot attain it ourselves. This shows us that we were not made for earthly things, things that soon will perish. This clearly shows us that we are unable to reach satisfaction by our own efforts. The only way the worldly hunger we experience will vanish is when Christ invades our hearts, and all of the emptiness our hearts possess. Then and only then will we rest in the satisfaction of Christ.
Also, whats beautiful about our hungry hearts is the simple fact that God designed them. When we become believers and our hearts start to crave, we pursue Christ and we can feel satisfied. And although that satisfaction is complete, if we crave more, God can graciously give more. When our hearts hunger and we pursue more of God, we get more of God and that is amazing.
May we pray that our every deepest desire would be to want more of God and that our lives would display that, all for His glory.
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