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hunger

“Fearing God means having a deeply commited respect, love and reverence for God’s authority and power. It means being afraid of what life would be like without him and being grateful that because of His love, we’ll never have to experience such despair. It means hungering for all that God his and all he has for us.” ~ from the Power of a Praying Parent by Stormie Omartian

I really like this quote but it got me thinking about hunger.

Hunger - in the natural, hunger is not a choice. It is something we feel as the result of not eating. The longer we go without food, the more hungry we get until we get to the point where the hunger dulls or we’re able to ignore it. So should our goal really be to “hunger” for God? Or should we get to the point where we “eat” so much of the things of God so often that we don’t feel the hunger. If we hunger for God, does that not mean that we haven’t eaten at his table? And if we ignore that hunger long enough, will it not dull, even to the point of not feeling it anymore? Perhaps the goal is not to hunger for God but to be so passionate about seeking God that we hunger for MORE AND MORE of God, a hunger that can never truly be satisfied.

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