The Life and Ministry of Jesus
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6
A doctor can tell much about the progress of his patients by seeing how much they eat. Physical development is related to physical appetite. It is no less true in the spiritual realm. Spiritual growth, spiritual development, and spiritual health are inseparably united to spiritual appetite. If you, before God, are convicted by the Spirit that the edge has gone from your appetite, or perchance the appetite is gone, on the authority of the Word we say to you, there can and will be no spiritual growth, development, no joy in your Christian experience, no power in your life until you return to the Word of God and the Person of Jesus Christ, and cultivate again that appetite which has been dulled or lost.
Hear again the heart cry of the giants: “Show me now thy way, that I may know thee.” “As the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God.” “That I may know him.” “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” 1
Personal Encouragement
How is your spiritual appetite? Is there a famine in your soul? What change will you make today? Remember: whatever you feed the most will prosper the most.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1
“The Bible keeps you from sin, and sin keeps you from the Bible.”
A Prayer
Lord, thank You for always supplying all the “soul food” I need.
1. Pentecost, J. D. (1999). Design for living: lessons in holiness from the Sermon on the mount. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications.
