Last year I went on a calorie counting diet. It meant 1000kj a meal, 5 meals a day.
Restricting my intake that much meant that when three hours rolled around and it was time for my next meal I was delightfully hungry. I LOVE eating when I’m hungry! Food just tastes so Good!!
Now that I’m back to ordinary eating I often forget to eat.
And when I forget to eat in the busyness of a day, I eventually forget my hunger. Until I think to eat, and when those nutrients hit my body I realise just how sluggish I had been for the past few hours and why!!! I was starving my body!
tonight at "Club Bible (better than Hans' BS)" we were reading Psalm 1 and ElderLiao (heh slash Paul) was encouraging us from the passage to be like the blessed man who is compared to a tree planted by the stream.
in ordinary language, be hungry for God's word.
Crave bible reading time.
(God has been hitting me over the head with this one lately btw)
i think hunger is the right word here. Because its often like that with being Hungry for God's Spirit through His Word. Hunger numbs eventually so you don't know its there, but its still there.
So i am RESOLVED to fill my heart and soul and mind and strength with the nutrients per se of God's word. I want to fill myself up with Him, and I know that regular bible reading will make me realise how hungry I've been all along.
If you're the praying kind, please pray for me that I would be faithful to this resolution, for God's glory and not for my own gratification alone.
love you all
In Him
Kat
