HUNGRY FOR MORE
Jesus said to them,
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who
believes in Me will never thirst.
Recent
health issues have limited my activity. As my world started getting
smaller, I felt food was the one thing I had left; maybe that is what the devil
desired me to believe. One day I said to my son “I just wish I could
eat whatever I wanted.” As soon as I
said those words I realized I had a real problem again. I have always battled
with my weight and have had a love-hate relationship with food for most of my
life. I know that when anything becomes more
important than God, my life is out of balance. I realized I was looking to food
as my source of comfort instead of God.
If you are like most
Americans your New Year’s Resolution to lose weight has already gone by the
wayside. That is because we as a society
have always viewed being overweight as a physical, discipline
problem. So we have always treated it with man-made solutions such as diet,
exercise, medications and surgeries. I am not saying that these should not be
part of the treatment plan but, it is really a spiritual problem. Unless we heal it with a spiritual solution,
we will never lose weight and keep it off. There is a hunger that only God can
satisfy, pain only He can heal.
If you saw someone starving wouldn’t
you give them something to eat? Then why not if someone was suffering give them
spiritual food? That is what we as
Christians do. We want to share who transformed
us. As a dietitian I have seen so many people
struggle to lose weight with only the tools they have been given that I felt
called to write this blog. You only have to turn on the television to see what
an epidemic obesity has become. In a
recent episode of “My 600 Pound Life,” a woman whose weight was destroying her
life cried out to God to help her. She knew could not do this alone. I want to
encourage others they don’t have to do this alone.
We are not happy here because we do not belong here. We will
have moments of enjoyment like when we are eating our favorite food but it is
temporary. We need to hunger for God’s presence
more than anything else. It is not a
physical hunger but a Spiritual hunger that we are trying to satisfy. We need God’s spiritual food from the Bible. In studying
God’s word we will truly know Him and the desires He has for us. By being in His presence we will find a place
of rest and refuge. Above all it is in
His presence that we can become transformed.
Come along with me on
this journey. Receive the spiritual food needed to no longer have to rely on our
own willpower but God’s power. Where we can’t, God can.
You are the air I Breathe
You are my Daily Bread
I Hunger for You
God has designed us to have no sufficiency on our own, which
is why we are always hungry for more. We
are hungry for more of Him.
Where are you hungry?
God will meet you there.
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