I last blogged about Spiritual Thirst, the quenching we ought to discover in our relationship with God is a sweet quest to find satisfaction in Him. Psalm 119:10 and 119:145 teach us that the heart’s thirst is satisfied in His Word.
There may remain a question as to why we hunger and thirst. The first reason is that God initiates the thirst. In Isaiah 30:18, we are told that those who thirst are blessed. In Matthew 5:6 Jesus declares that those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness are blessed. We understand that those who long for God have Him at work in their life through the person of the Holy Spirit.
Charles Spurgeon wrote:
When a man pants after God, it is a secret life within which makes him do it: he would not long after God by nature. No man thirsts for God while he is left in his carnal
[that is unconverted] state. The unrenewed man pants after anything sooner than God: …It proves a renewed nature when you long after God; it is a work of grace in your soul, and you may be thankful for it.
The second reason we hunger and thirst is so that we may understand what it means to have it satisfied. Psalm 17:9 tells us that God satisfies the longing soul. How are you being satisfied?
God created us to have our desires satisfied in Him. When we experience God and His presence we agree with the Psalmist when he said, “they are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures” (Psalm 36:8).
Whitney concludes, that that a thirst for God is a God-planned part of one’s growth towards the heavenly home. We won’t ever be satisfied until we are glorified and in The Lord’s presence. So today, as you find yourself thirsty, panting, in need of spiritual quenching for the dryness that creeps into every soul, why not turn to The Lord who satisfies your longings and draw long and hard from the Word of God and find that restoration you so desperately want and need?
