HUNGER & THIRST
Psalm 63:1
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”
Mid September is a time here in my part of the country when bear hunters begin to get excited about the upcoming season. Season opens in just a few weeks and hunters are training their dogs or getting baits out, preparing for the hunt. Yesterday I took a quick ride to look at where the corn fields are where my friends bear hunt. Soon the corn will begin to ripen and the bears, in farm lands, will be living very close or right in those fields.
In the past I have found places where the bears were laying on the edge of corn fields and gorging themselves on corn. There were areas 20 - 30 yards across loaded with bear droppings, filled with corn remains. These bears loved the corn. They returned to the fields each night as they remained hungry each evening as they had been the night before. As the corn starts to ripen and harden the bears continue to eat it but when they are out sweet food they begin to looking for anything and everything they can eat before heading to hibernation. At this time if there is nothing else to eat, they will continue to eat the corn. They ate but were never really satisfied.
That reminded me of the Biblical story of the woman at the well... She had been drinking from the same well for years and was never filled up. But when she met Jesus, she was filled with what comes from an everlasting well, that never would run dry, she would never thirst again. She had been thirsty and hungry but after her encounter with her Savior, she never had to go eating and drinking where she was going to eventually die (an eternal death) from her actions.
All of us must face where we will be satisfied. We can live a life darting from place to place looking for satisfaction and eventually it will cost us everything, like the bears that come to the corn fields each night but never get enough. Or we can "feast on" the real thing and not fall for the "bait" of this world.
Choose wisely, it has eternal consequences. I pray you are filled with God and not hungry for the world's baits and entrapments, which lead to death. Satan knows just what bait to use to make you feel satisfied for “the moment"… but that satisfaction is false and fleeting. Come to the satisfaction that Jesus offers… it will never let you down, you will not have hunger and thirst again.
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