Are You Hungry

Desire

A man must earnestly want.

William Frederick Book

Ps 73:25-28
Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You. But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. NASU

St. Augustine, Bishop and Theologian who lived from 354-430 A.D., spoke of desire in this way. “Thy desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.” What is desire? It is an earnest want. Can you remember the last time you really desired something, and pursued it until you obtained it? It may have been your wife or husband, or a home, but you desired to obtain it and would not be satisfied until it was yours.

Robert Collier an American Writer, and Publisher, says that very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat…
We must be careful to direct our desire, and the only safe way is to feed and grow our desire for our Lord. Asaph, was a leader of the Levitical Choir when David was King and he was a theologian that expressed his desires and devotion to God through song, it must have been wonderful to hear. He says to his God, whom have I in heaven, but you, and my desire is wholly devoted to you, this earth holds nothing that I want, I will trust in Thee.

Now that is “Desire,” it is a desire for God that is like that of a drowning man seeking a breath of air. Have you ever been there? Of course you have, it is a desire that will not be denied, and that will be fulfilled at all costs. Why, because without it you could not live. Ok, now you get a little glimpse of the desire that we must have to get all of God that we can get. It is a hunger that will not go away, a growling stomach that must be fed, and if you will seek Him thus, you will find Him, The Living and True God. As Ps 42:1-2 says, as the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; … God Bless.

Pastor William