In John, Chapter six, we read how Jesus feeds five thousand people with five small loaves of bread and two fish – one of his many miracles. Then Jesus went across a lake to a mountainside to rest. The next day, some people of the crowd, that he fed, found him.
Jesus told them that they were looking for him not because of the miracle he performed but because they were filled after eating the food they were fed.
Later in the same chapter Jesus explains that he is the bread of life. He told the people that whoever comes to him will never be hungry or thirsty. He wasn’t talking about physical thirst or hunger, he was talking about spiritual thirst and hunger.
When you have a deep spiritual need, how do you attempt to satisfy it? When you’re sad, grieving, hurt, lonely, worried or afraid what or who do you turn to? Is it food? Alcohol? Pornography? Gambling? Illicit sex? Some other harmful or addictive habit or some person?
Jesus wants to satisfy your deepest needs. You may not be conscious of it, but deep inside, we are all hungry for Jesus because God created us in such a way as to need him – to be satisfied by him alone.
If you’ve been turning to an unhealthy habit or to someone other than Jesus to meet your deepest cravings – your deep spiritual needs – than confess it to God.
Then cry out to Jesus and allow him to satisfy you!
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Hungry for Jesus – A ministry to help women conquer disordered eating.
Yes and amen for a rich life in Christ with a lot satisfaction. But I still lack some things from the Lord in my life, and I believe that that many others also need more of the Lord to be content and be filled and have a satisfied life. Pray for me to be filled of the best treasures of the Lord and to be used by Him. Thanks and blessings to you, Keijo swden
Hello Keijo,
I do pray that God will satisfy you deep in your heart. I pray that as you yield to him more completely that he will dwell in your heart in a deeper way. I pray that you will have a humble attitude and that He will use you in a mighty way. And I pray that in this, He will receive glory and honor and fame. Amen!