“I’m STARVING!”
Have you heard that before?
I’m sure you have.
Maybe your children came in from play outside and let you know they were thirsty, hungry, and HAD to have something NOW!
Maybe you and your family were traveling, and you were reluctant to stop to eat until someone proclaimed loudly you had to stop because they “were STARVING right now!”
Generally speaking, people can live up to three weeks to two to three months without eating, but only three to five days without water (MedicineNet.com, Medical News today.com).
I have never starved. Once I was on a train in France and forgot to get bottled water. The water on the train was not drinkable. I thought I would die of thirst, but of course, I didn’t. I also didn’t forget to buy and take water next time!
Most people in America struggle with eating too much rather than having too little, although around 10.2 percent of Americans have food “insecurity.” (USDA). Eating the right things is a struggle that is more daily in most cases than having absolutely nothing. According to the CDC about 74 percent of adults in America weight too much. But do people feel satisfied even with all that intake?
Even now 1.1 million people still get sick in America from germs in drinking water (CDC.gov). And we have to have water to live.
There is a more horrible death than by slowly wasting away by starvation and parching thirst.
Spiritual death.
Spiritual death without faith in God —- when a person doesn’t feed the spirit or soul with the perfect spiritual food and drink that is never ending and ever pure and life giving. Check out the Bible teaching:
Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” We are supposed to HUNGER and THIRST for God, a relationship with Him, His salvation and truth, and wisdom and help. If we ask, God will give to us.
We satisfy physical hunger with proper food. But when we begin to intake the nourishment for our spirits of the true and living God—-we can’t get enough! And it doesn’t harm us, it makes us closer to Him, as He convicts us of sin, forgives us as we confess and repent, and saves us as we turn to Him in faith!
Nothing we substitute for God will satisfy us spiritually. Nothing. But Jesus assured us that our deep thirst for God can be quenched by Him: “Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14.
What are you feeding your spirit? What are you drinking in gulps from our corrupt society?
Spit it out and ask God to show you how to be filled spiritually forever!
