Psalm 34:8 "O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him."
I have tasted of the Lord and He is good! So why do I far too often leave the great buffet of food He has prepared for me? I believe that living as a spoiled American we spend most of our time seeking how to please ourselves through the flesh and why do we do this...because we can. We have far too many possessions and too much "food" to ever feel as though we need Him every minute of every hour. But the truth is that we are forever more starving ourselves spiritually and we don't even realize it. We attempt to have a great faith and wonder why we fail at the smallest of tests. It is impossible to see great things from Him based on the way most of us provide for our spirits. We are suffering from spiritual malnutrition.
When God jerks the rug out from under our feet we find it easier to hunger and thirst after Him but when we are "full" we say "Who is the Lord?" (Proverbs 30:8-9 "...give me neither poverty nor riches: feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord?...")
It can be dangerous to dwell on the failures of one's life but it can also be very helpful to allow the Spirit of God to make us aware of our frailties that we might see ourselves as the poor and needy children that we truly are.
May we today hunger and thirst after righteousness that we might dwell in Him and in His land that flows with milk and honey!
This is convicting. Reminds me that a lack of hunger and thirst for God, opens the door to a flesh dependent life versus a Spirit-filled life. This falls in line with what I had heard John Van Gelderen preach about last week during a week of revival meetings.
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