No Thanks, I’ve Already Eaten…

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Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.

How can we truly HUNGER for more of Jesus in our lives, if we are continually filling ourselves up with things that don’t matter?

After we eat, we’re not hungry anymore. Common sense right?

I know I’ve sang the words, “We are hungry for more of You, We are thirsty oh Jesus, We are thirsty for more of You”, and they were just that… words. It was kind of like the picture above, I really wasn’t hungry anymore, cause I had my fill of other things, but I knew I needed to force it down to win some sort of prize.

Let’s be real…

If your spiritual belly is already full, then where’s the room for feasting on God?

Am I really hungry for more of Jesus in my life?

Here’s another way to ask this question.

What made me happy this week?

Was it the time spent alone with Jesus in prayer? Was it the time spent in His life giving Word? Was it the opportunity you took to serve someone, and not be served? To show someone unconditional love, the way Christ loves us?

Or did your joy this week mainly come from a shopping trip, getting that new CD, or finally beating that level on that video game you’ve spent countless hours in front of? Did it come from proving your point to someone, or winning an argument?

Here are some questions (taken from the book “The Vision and The Vow”) to help you gauge your spiritual hunger:

• Am I craving, and so creating, time alone with Jesus in prayer?
• Is He more important to me than my partner, my family, and my friends?
• Do I find Christ’s name on my lips throughout the day, or only in overtly sacred contexts?
• Is he my last thought at night and my first in the morning as I stumble into the bathroom?
• Do I make time to pore over His biography?
• Is my prayer life garrisoned into occasional blocks of time, or do I find myself conversing with Him about ridiculous trivia throughout the day?

I encourage you to DAILY evaluate your life, your time. It’s so easy to get caught up in so many other things, and before we know it, time with Jesus is just part of a list of things to do. And that’s if He even makes the list.

Let’s get completely captivated by His gaze. Let Him consume who we are. Let’s lay down the things that fill us up and keep us from being hungry for more of Him.

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