Thirsty for God
You have to be hungry first. You have to be thirsty first.
You won’t truly appreciate a feast unless you’re really hungry. You won’t enjoy a cool drink of water unless you’ve been thirsty for a long time.
It’s the same with God.
The people who flocked to Jesus where the hungry and thirsty people. The fat, full, and bloated don’t come to God, the thirsty do.
You must be thirsty before you can really drink.
Jesus: Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
The woman: Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty…
God will put you in circumstances that starve you. He will take away your normal food and drink. He does this because he loves you. He does this to expose your deepest thirst. He does this to wake you up and make you alive. He has your best interest in mind. He will withhold the food, water, idols, and noise you normally fill yourself with until you feel the sweet pain of the deep thirst of your heart, the thirst that only God can quench.
You meet God when God brings you to the point that you cry out, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” God fills your thirst so that you can leave the old, empty wells behind.
Are you in the middle of a famine? Be thankful. God is starving you in order to truly feed you.
Beautiful!!!
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"God is starving you in order to truly feed you." – Justin Buzzard http://j.mp/h6mAEO
my text for sunday from Deut 8: “And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.”
Crazy to think that not only do we need to be hungry to really find satisfaction in God, but that God himself will make us aware of our hunger/thirst so that we can find satisfaction in him alone!
Lord I thrist for u
Justin, thank you so much for posting.
God will put you in circumstances that starve you. http://bit.ly/eQ10Ex
RT @JustinBuzzard: God will put you in circumstances that starve you. http://bit.ly/eQ10Ex
RT @justinbuzzard: God will put you in circumstances that starve you. http://bit.ly/eQ10Ex // Sad how many people fail to see this blessing.
"God is starving you in order to truly feed you." – Justin Buzzard http://j.mp/h6mAEO
"God is starving you in order to truly feed you." –Thirsty for God http://www.justinbuzzard.net/2010/11/30/thirsty-for-god/
God is starving you in order to truly feed you. http://j.mp/hFiOsZ #fb