Let's get fed

One of my favorite songs for a long time is "Hungry" by Kathryn Scott.  The lyrics are:
Hungry, I come to you
For I know You satisfy
I am empty, but I know
Your love does not run dry

So I wait for You
I’m falling on my knees
Offering all of me
Jesus, You’re all this heart is living for

Broken, I run to You
For Your arms are open wide
I am weary, but I know
Your touch restores my life

I can't tell you how many times I have sang that song or heard that song and really not felt the meaning deep in my heart.  Sure, it meant something, otherwise I wouldn't have sang it but this morning...it touched the very deepest part of my soul.

I've never gone hungry to the point of starving in literal terms. However, we have all gotten to the point where we were so hungry we felt like we were going to die, figuratively speaking, if we didn't get something to eat.

When we get physically hungry,  we find something to eat.  When I was a kid and was sent to my room without dinner because I misbehaved, I would get desperately hungry enough that I would eat sunflower seeds out of my cocktail's cage.  Ha! How silly is that??  But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Over the last several months I have become so hungry.  This hunger hasn't been from a physical place but an emotional, spiritual place.  I started feeling so empty and desperate. 

Matthew 4:1-4 KJV says this, "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

If we are to live like Jesus, God has to lead us in that direction.  He "sends us to our room withput dinner when we misbehave." I truly believe God allowed me to be drawn into darkness, by my own free will, so that I would get hungry.  It wasn't until all the earthly stuff, the clutter, the distractions were removed that I began getting truly hungry.  I had to get stripped and real with God.

I am positive that Satan had every intention of watching me starve to death during this ordeal.  Ha! Joke's on him!!!! The Holy Spirit just made me hungrier for spiritual food. Satan's plan backfired.  That makes me giggle.  Team God- 1, Team Satan- 0

I find myself with a deep desire, through the struggle of brokenness, to seek out the food-God's Word.  I no longer go hungry.  God satisfies the hunger with His loving arms wrapped, tightly around me.  I have learned to offer ALL of me instead of just the parts that need Him.  My entire body, heart, mind and soul crave Him.  It's a good hunger, not a needy one.

God wants to fill our hunger and all we have to do...offer ALL to Him. 
He can restore us through the fulfillment of the hunger for Him.