I have something the Lord has put on my heart today to help encourage us today.
I don’t know about you, but I am so hungry and thirsty for the Lord and His Truth. I wanted to be saturated in His Presence. It’s only in His Presence that there is true fullness of joy. How many times do we think we are physically hungry when we are actually hungry and thirsty for Jesus? How often can we forget that Jesus is to be our Living Bread?
Because of this lack of revelation, we may search for ways to satisfy this constant “hunger” in the wrong places. We have all been there. This can come out in various ways besides just looking to physical food and drink. People also can get pulled into various distractions, clothes, relationships, sex, work, sometimes sadly, even church activities itself to try to “fill this hunger” or “unquenchable thirst.”
As a result, many end up in addictions, strongholds, and various bondage of the enemy… all because they tried to fill or satisfy a God-given hunger and thirst in their soul for the Lord. The truth is God put it there, and He knows that only He can satisfy it.
Lord Jesus ran into this issue with the crowds and followers. He knew their hearts, and the Bible talks about how many followed Him to be naturally fed or for the physical miracles they saw Him perform. He desired them to go deeper than that. He wanted to come into a deeper spiritual place, beyond the natural.
He wanted not only to draw them into eternal life but also into daily personal relationship with Him, to depend on Him and desire to commune with Him daily.
During that time, people equated bread with a much-needed daily staple that was necessary for survival. Jesus was trying to get them to realize that He was their daily staple; yes, they needed Him to survive. One place He expressed this powerfully was in John 6:35.
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
Another great scripture is Isaiah 55:1-2 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Notice the Lord says twice, “Listen, listen to Me.” He is not talking about actual physical bread, wine, and milk here; He is using it as an analogy. There is a deeper meaning He is trying to convey here. He says, His Words are the Words of Life.
Notice there is a free open invitation here as well. “Come,” He beckons, all who are thirsty, needy, and hungry. That they can come and receive! He says they can be filled without having to pay any money! It is freely given!
What a beautiful picture here of the Lord’s big heart, His abundant grace, His invitation for personal relationship, for all to come, to listen to Him, to help themselves freely. What love, what generosity, and abundance of heart our Abba has towards us! If we would only accept His invitation and go to Him, sit at His feet, listen to Him, and freely receive, oh how we would then be truly satisfied..
I truly believe right now that the Lord is increasing that hunger and thirst for Him on purpose, to draw us to Him, to get us to pursue Him in intimacy as He pursues us, with such an ardent passionate love. God is love. He does not just love us; He is in love with us! He is called the Lover of our souls! He gave his all for us! He wants intimacy with us, and only He can satisfy us. If we don’t get this, then we will be vulnerable to all that is on the earth trying to pull us away from Him, trying to starve us and dehydrate us. No, we must realize He is our very sustenance, our very Life. Selah.
Below we see David getting revelation of this truth, alas, in a “wilderness” season. So sad that it often takes us to go through our own “wilderness” season to finally “get it” and accept His ongoing invitation, which is always there…to come to Him, and receive His love.
Psalm 63:2-8 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding your power and glory.
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,
and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
when I remember you upon my bed,
and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
for you have been my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
What are thoughts on this? Would love for you to leave your comments below.
In His Love,
Sybella
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