If you’ve ever dealt with a baby, then you know that babies have only one proven method to communicate: cry and scream. They do this if they are scared or if they are hurt or if they are lonely. And they also cry and scream when they are hungry. Even when we are as young as a few days old, we feel the need to fill our hunger. Hunger tells us that there is something wrong, something lacking. So we act with urgency and (sometimes) panic in order to fill up, so that we are no longer hungry.
Think of how you feel when you are hungry. Now take a moment to think of when you feel hungry for something other than food. Think of when you are hungry for affection, or hungry for adventure, or hungry for affirmation, or hungry for comfort. Many of us would be willing to deal with some physical hunger as long as these deeper longings were being fulfilled.
We are all hungry, and not just for food. We all know that there is something wrong. Something lacking. Even if we think we know the right way to fill ourselves, we often find our hunger persisting. This Sunday at Life Bible Fellowship Church we will see Jesus address this idea. He affirms that we are all hungry, and then He points us to the one and only way for us to satisfy that hunger and be filled.
Dan
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