The Hunger

There are many forms of hunger that we see around us. There is the ache to be loved, the addictive hunger for pleasure, the desperate seeking after recognition and appreciation, and the deep desire to know what’s next. There is also the straight-forward need for food that we see in Gaza and the Sudan. Right now, people are striving to find these things as well as dying from the lack or even the sense that they are lacking from their lives. Whether it is a physical demand or a psychological demand or a spiritual demand, the hunger is real. Isaiah 55 is a series of promises from God that he claims will be fulfilled. As believers in Jesus, we can look at this passage and discover a sense that this is true in our lives. We have found the love we ache for, the appreciation that doesn’t demand we must strive to prove our greatness, the freedom of true joy, and the assurance that God holds the future, whatever it will include. We can rest in how our hungers have been met through Christ and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our souls. But, as we relax into all we have received from the Lord, then we find there is a call upon our hearts. The call is transparent, like looking through a glass into the outer world. There are needs and hunger all around us. There are people who ache to know the home in which we live, the satisfaction we have received, and the assurance that provides us with such security in life. Whether we are called to supply physical food, emotional comfort, psychological clarity, or spiritual soundness, we are called to provide the resources of God to those in need. As we enter Holy Week, as we trail behind Jesus to the cross, reminding ourselves of the work he did to meet our needs, we find the strength to become HIS people, to reach out through HIS power, to meet the hungers of the rest of all those HE loves Blessings, Geoff