Tuesday, November 12, 2019

What Are You Hungry and Thirsty For? Are You Allowing Your Fleshly Appetite To Override Your Appetite For Righteousness?


What are you choosing to do first?   Are you choosing to please God first or are you choosing to fulfill the appetite of your flesh?    Understand, your flesh has an appetite just as our Spirit does.   The Bible tells us that we are to hunger and thirst after righteousness.    You have to know what it means to hunger and to thirst.   When you are hungry for something, you have a strong desire or craving for it.   There are times when you are so hungry that your stomach will growl or make noises that indicate that it wants to be fed.   Usually a growling sound is associated with anger or unpleasantness.    

It’s the same with being thirsty.   When you are thirsty for something.    You feel a need to drink.   Thirst can bring on desperation.   When you are really thirsty, you become desperate for something that will quench your thirst.    Understand, God wants us to be hungry and thirsty for righteousness.   

So my question today is what are you hungry and what are you thirsty for?   Are you hungry and thirsty for God and the things of God or are You allowing your appetite to fulfill your fleshly desires override your desire for God?  In the world we live in today there are a lot of people who are trying to live healthier so they focus on what they put in their body physically but they fail to focus on what they are letting into their lives spiritually.   It’s not just about having a physical healthy body because you can be physically healthy and still die spiritually.    That is why it is important that we hunger and thirst after righteousness.   It is important that we fill ourselves up with God’s Word so that we can have something to draw from when we feel weak.   It is just like our body storing away extra calories in fat reserves.   The stored fat fuels our body when food is scarce.   We have to make sure we are taking care of ourselves physically and spiritually and that means having what we need stored up for our time of need.


SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Psalm 119:11 
King James Version (KJV)
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.


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