Notes of Faith February 13, 2025

How to Be Filled

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Matthew 5:6

It is not necessary to remind newborns that it is time to eat. Newborns don’t know much, but they know when they’re hungry! And adults know the same thing. Yes, at times we may be so busy that we forget to eat when we should, but our body soon reminds us. When we are physically hungry, we know only one solution: food.

But the same is not true with spiritual hunger. We may think we can satisfy spiritual hunger with materialism, advancement, entertainment, or other worldly intake. But spiritual hunger—lack of purpose, identity, meaning, or fulfillment—can only be satisfied by taking in more of God. It was Blaise Pascal who said, in essence, that there is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person that can only be filled by God. Just as there is a “food-shaped vacuum” in the human stomach that can only be filled by food, so God is the only Bread of Life that can satisfy our spiritual hunger.

Jesus said that those who hunger for the righteousness of God will be blessed by the fullness of His presence. Satisfy your spiritual hunger for Him today.

They who do not thirst for righteousness shall be in perpetual hunger and thirst.

Thomas Watson

God is doing the work He promises in all who are called and believe. This is one hunger that I never want satisfied!

John 6:48-51

48 "I am the bread of life. 49 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 "This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."

Pastor Dale