DCLM Sincere Milk 26 February 2022 — Hunger for God
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TOPIC: HUNGER FOR GOD
PSALM 42:1-5
1 (To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.) As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
KEY VERSE: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God” (PSALM 42:1).
MESSAGE:
If a child does not have appetite (hunger for food) for a long period of time, the parents will become concerned and worried. This is because lack of desire for food is a sign that the child may be sick. This loss of appetite would normally be treated by doctors to prevent the child from dying.
Forgetting to pray for days and not having the desire to read God’s word are signs of lack of appetite for the things of God. Preferring to stay with friends who make silly jokes and forgetting about fellowship is a sign of a spiritual problem. Another sign of lack of hunger for God is when weeks and months pass without you telling someone about the love of Jesus. Just as our body needs water and thirsts for it, so does our soul need God, and we must thirst and hunger for Him to be refreshed and have strength to continue to obey Jesus and grow to be more like Him.
The hart (deer) is an animal that thirsts and goes to the river to refresh, so as to continue to live and grow. In like manner, a friend of Jesus must thirst after Jesus, the Source of living water. Love to read and meditate on God’s word daily, love righteousness, pray every day, love to tell others about Jesus, and desire to obey God no matter what it costs. It pays to thirst after God, for He has promised to satisfy your hunger for Him.
PRAYER: Father, please put in my heart a hunger and a thirst that only You can satisfy.
FURTHER READING: Psalm 63:1-8
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
