THE HUNGER FOR THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT

Deu 8:3: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live."


God uses the challenges, troubles, and discomforts we go through to make us hunger for the things of the Spirit of God, and He feeds and fills us with His words; and makes the taste of His words in our spirit become the satisfaction and pleasure of our hearts.  One of the things that we lost through sin which God wanted to restore to us after salvation is finding joy and pleasure through fellowship with the words of God. God is fond of hiding Himself besides challenges and troubles, and He uses them as opportunities to create hunger in our hearts for His words through intentional engagement with the scriptures so that He can restore the joy and the pleasure of fellowship with Him through the revelations of His words. When we turn to God to seek His person and not for His hands only in our challenges, He will call upon us and begin to reveal His person to us. It's after Moses has turned aside to see the mystery behind the bush that was burning and not consumed that God introduced Himself to him. Exodus 3-4-6. Moses turned aside to see why the bush that was burning was not consumed, and unknowing to him that it was God he was turning aside to know. We must turn aside from the crowd to God to know Him and not always turn to Him in prayer only when we are in need. We will never know God if we only reach out to him when we are in trouble because God wouldn't make Himself known to us. 


If God reveals Himself to us without being hungry for Him, we will cast His revelations aside as trash. God is more precious than gold and He will never make Himself available on the surface to be easily found by the slothful, but hides Himself in the secret. And it's only those who are thirsty for God that He reveals Himself and makes His power known. That is the reason why it's only Mary Magdalene who tarries longer at the tomb and seeks to see the Lord Jesus after His resurrection that He first revealed Himself to and was sent to other disciples, and not Peter and another disciple who was satisfied only by the linen clothes and the napkin that was on Jesus. John 20:1-18. They didn't know that the resurrection of Jesus is beyond seeing His linen clothes and napkin, it's more about His knowledge and His power that comes through intimacy with Him. When Jesus saw the weeping, the persistent and steadfastness of Mary Magdalene to see Him, Jesus had stopped over on His way to heaven to reveal Himself to her so that she can be consoled and satisfied. Don't be so content with the physical things that you first found in your seeking the Lord. The knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ is beyond receiving answers to pressing needs, these are only the surface or shallow things about the Lord. The Lord is deeper than dispensing only physical things to us, He wants to reveal Himself to us on a larger and deeper scale that we have never seen, heard, or experienced, so that we can know intimately, walk with Him, and do what He does.



Pastor Samson Adelanke

Twitter:@samsonadelanke



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