🇬🇧 A person who is really hungry will do almost anything to get food. His life depends on it. Hunger is the strongest of motives. It produces energy and it drives decisive action. It’s powerful. This intense desire, this hunger and thirst for God, and this passion to pursue His righteousness is a hallmark of a true believer. Listen to how David put it: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Ps 42:1-2 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Ps 63:1 A healthy appetite is a good sign that a person is well. But if a person loses his appetite, it is usually a sign that something is wrong. Apply this spiritually: If you have a deep longing to grow in Christ, that’s a good statement about your spiritual health. It is not to feel that you’ve arrived, but to have a great longing for more. When you are satisfied, you are no longer hungry. But Jesus speaks of hunger and a satisfaction that exist together at the same time. "Can one who has been brought into vital union with Him who is the Bread of Life… be found still hungering and thirsting? Yes, such is the experience of the renewed heart." "The Christian is one who at one and the same time is hungering and thirsting, and yet he is filled. And the more he is filled, the more he hungers and thirsts. That is the blessedness of the Christian life. It goes on." This is the dynamic of the Christian life, and nobody has spoken of this more compellingly than A. W. Tozer: "To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love." Godly men and women have found joy in this mystery through the ages.  Bernard of Clairvaux, writing in the 12th century, penned these words:"We taste Thee, O Thou living bread And long to feast upon Thee still. We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And Thirst our souls from Thee to fill." W. Tozer writes: "We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found God, we need seek him no more." - Colin Smith