Famished

Have you ever been so hungry that it felt like your insides were beginning to devour one another? Fasting can bring on this feeling, so can simple starvation. Now most of us haven't suffered from starvation, at least for a long time, but we have felt the pangs of an empty stomach.

Do you remember how it feels to be without a drink of water for a while, a powerful thirst that comes from working, exercising or being stranded in the desert? Your mouth goes dry and it becomes hard to swallow. Saliva production ceases and it feels like your mouth is filled with sticky goo. That's real thirst.

We know what these feel like because somewhere in our lives we've experienced both of them, even if slightly. We also know the feeling of cool water on a parched tongue, the satisfaction of a simple sandwich to an empty stomach.

That's the image Amos is sharing with Israel, that God's true desire fo them was to hunger and thirst for Him!

But they didn't.

The truth is that's still what God wants, for us to have a healthy appetite, a ravenous hunger, a powerful drought, to be totally famished...

...for God!

Just imagine the bliss of the spirit as our famine is filled with the feast God has prepared just for us. It's okay to be hungry, in fact it's critical that we are...

...famished!

Peace ><>
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