Once our food pyramid is aligned with God in the biggest box, we can begin to feed off the other things that satisfy our souls or our mind, will and emotions. We do this through our many unique callings. We do it through giving and loving and living until our hearts are fat, happy and safe in the limitless confounds called dreaming. It is only in our dreams that boundaries are denied access and resources are found to be limitless.
Sometimes you don't know how hungry you are for the supernatural and adventurous kingdom of God until you take your first bite. Reading about the wonders in Acts and the pursuit of the apostles is astounding, but when you begin writing your own pages based upon the events of your day, you obtain an appetite that exceeds any amount of desire you've ever felt. This appetite, in turn, stirs up a roaring hunger so deep in your life that all you can do is look for some sort of satisfaction for the rumbling and that comes when people pray the prayer of salvation, are delivered from demons, begin to walk in joy and receive Holy Spirit.
Hunger is a natural and invisible anticipation that pulsates so vividly within your veins, making it hard to think. When you can’t give justice to the screaming adjectives of your heart through the jumbled vowels and consonants that are blurrily muttered in tangled chaos while you sit alone praying in your room, you’re hungry. When you feel fidgety even in the midst of success and opportunity, you’re really just hungry. God has created you with this burning desire for thrill and the adventurous journey that comes along. Will you let that desire be satisfied?
Hungry appetites usher in the kind of anticipation that steals away one’s oxygen just before Jack pops out of his box, the anticipation of an expected phone call just before your adrenalin launches you into the air at the sound of ringing. It’s like the burst of a balloon or the terrible sensation of slamming on brakes. It’s overwhelming and all consuming.
Hunger can strike at any age, any location. It strikes within transition periods between one season and the next, when you least expect it and when you’ve been waiting for it with opened arms. It calls to you with screaming whispers saying, “Is this all there is to life? God, there has to be more!” Short snacks in God’s presence will begin to make you sick, squirmy, unhappy and uncomfortable because your spirit man is crying out for intimacy with God. Your heart is longing for the deep-end of His Kingdom.
I believe this hunger hits all of us at one point in our lives, whether we learn to recognize and respond to it or not. God is a God of greatness and adventure and we are made in His image.
When it does hit you, you will automatically begin a search for fulfillment. Will you be fulfilled by the superficial food groups of life? True beauty and fulfillment comes not when you are looking into the eyes of your mirror but when you are looking into the eyes of the nations, the faces of the world.
It’s wonderful to pursue dreams and diverse successes but there is something really special about the pursuit of giving yourself away, pouring the substance of your existence into others. It’s simple. After all, this was the very core of Jesus’ life on earth.
Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to the unreached world will fill even the deepest and most agonizing cravings you may encounter. Eating is simple yet profound.
Hunger brings expectancy for greatness, urgency for excellence. It screams for salvation, signs, wonders, miracles and revival. It is the Kingdom of Heaven bottled up inside of you, shaken and near the point of explosion!
Me and my best in Somali region!
After 4 salvtations and countless contacts established in such a thickly blanketed islamic area, the bus ride home was exploding with worship! Thanks Jesus!!
Thank you Gabby for "pouring the substance of your existence into others." Your words and life are so powerful! Love you so much
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