Are we willing to wait in the hunger?
Sometimes our souls feel a hunger deep inside, and often we attempt to fill this hunger with whatever is quick and easy to find.
Perhaps we fill it with food, or a movie, or we head onto the internet. Some of the things we fill this hunger with are harmful to us and to those we love.
The hunger is not wrong, it is a God-shaped hunger that only he can fill.
King David recognized this longing, and he knew what he truly craved.
Reading Psalm 63 (NIV)
Psalm 63
A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.
You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
David recognized his soul's longing was for God and that nothing else would quench that thirst.
In fact, he goes on to say that even a great meal wouldn't meet that need.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
When the hunger comes, I wonder, what would happen if we refuse temporary satisfaction and wait, actively praising God?
