You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat. – Matthew 5:6
“Hungering and thirsting” for God is one of the principles of kingdom-living, Jesus teaches us here. We usually get what we want, and Jesus challenges us here to want God more than anything else, to “pant” after Him, using the figure of Psalm 63. In his temptation, Jesus retorted to Satan who tempted him to turn stones to bread after forty days and nights in the wilderness, “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). The true follower of Jesus has an insatiable desire for God, and a delight in God’s presence that the unbelieving world cannot ever understand. Religion is much more than a list of rules, or even a correct theological interpretation, or having the right church. Religion is a matter of really wanting God!
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