Monday, Might 12, 2025
Keep Hungry
“I pray that your love will overflow increasingly more, and that you’ll carry on rising in information and understanding.” (Philippians 1:9 NLT)
I eat dinner at 5 o’clock. However I get hungry round three o’clock. So I begin counting off the time till I eat. I stay up for my meal. Typically I get tempted to eat one thing to carry me over. You understand, when 5 o’clock looks as if it should by no means get right here, and there’s a Taco Bell close by. I begin excited about a burrito supreme—or possibly only a taco to carry me over.
The issue is that it spoils my urge for food. After I refill on one thing that’s not good for me, it makes me lose my urge for food for issues which might be good for me.
The identical factor can occur to us spiritually. There are issues we do, locations we go, and folks we hang around with that uninteresting us spiritually. They make us lose our urge for food for the issues of God. They stunt our development. After we indulge ourselves with them, the result’s that we need to do much less, and no more, spiritually.
On the flip facet, there are different individuals who encourage us spiritually by their instance and by the godliness of their character. They don’t maintain themselves up as position fashions and ask, “Why aren’t you extra like me?” They merely dwell their religion in a approach that’s not simply inspiring, but in addition motivating. Being with them stimulates our starvation for Jesus.
And that’s an excellent factor, as a result of it comes right down to this: As Christians, there’s at all times extra for us to learn about being disciples. There’s at all times extra for us to study sharing our religion and inspiring others. There’s at all times extra to find in God’s Phrase.
The apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 1:9, “I pray that your love will overflow increasingly more, and that you’ll carry on rising in information and understanding” (NLT). His level is that you just’re by no means executed as a Christian. Regardless of how a lot you like, you may love extra. Regardless of how a lot you pray, you may pray extra. Regardless of how a lot you obey, you may obey extra.
Jesus stated, “Blessed are those that starvation and thirst for righteousness, for they are going to be stuffed” (Matthew 5:6 NIV). I don’t learn about you, however I believe all Christians ought to have a look at themselves and say, “I’m not content material with the place I’m at spiritually. There’s extra to vary in my life. I have to turn into extra like Jesus.”
The second you fold your arms and say, “I’m content material with the place I’m,” you set your self up for a fall. When Jesus stated, “Until you . . . turn into like little youngsters, you’ll by no means get into the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3 NLT), He wasn’t speaking about being infantile. He was speaking about being childlike—at all times rising, at all times studying, and generally relearning issues that we neglect.
Keep hungry for God’s reality. Thirst after righteousness. Refuse to relaxation in your non secular laurels. So long as you may have breath, proceed to develop in your relationship with Christ. Search for methods to be a more practical prayer warrior and evangelist. In case you do, God guarantees that you’ll be stuffed—and fulfilled.
Reflection Query: How will you “keep hungry” in your Christian faith?
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