Thirst for God!

In a nation that is abundant with all you can eat and drink options, we seem to have no problem finding all types of food and beverages that will fill us to the brim when hungry. As a culinary student I am very passionate about food, and seem to know it well. Have you ever been so hungry you think you could eat an entire cow, Hahaha? But when you find yourself in one of these all you can eat restaurants you don't really eat as much as you may have thought you would? In retrospect though have you ever been so thirsty you just don't seem to be able to get enough to quench your thirst? You eventually however get your fill. But before long you are thirsty again, hungry again. When in this search for these special all you can eat and drink places sometimes they are our answer because we just cant decide what it is we want, we just don't know what it is.... Spiritual thirst is like this. We thirst for God in so many ways. With prayers and request to our God we pray and fervently ask Lord I want to know you more. The more you seek him the more you want to seek him more know him better. Like these restaurants the world too is full of places unending to fulfill the humans desires, but before long and always you find your self just not quite satisfied. Though you may find happiness or satisfaction it is for a short time. Unlike feeding your soul and refreshing it through God. God gives us peace for the moment and a desire to to seek him more. The worlds buffets through satin constantly try to lure us to feast and fill up on worldly desire and actions, but leaving us displaced, empty, not satisfied. My Grandfather is a life long student of God. He has spent his entire life searching learning and sharing God. Still to this day he is much older wiser and has many things to share about his studies and his learned lessons. Yet he still strives daily to know God more, I couldn't think of what it is he dose not know. Paul was like this. The Apostle Paul must have similarly impressed others in his day. Despite all his maturity in Christ, all he had seen and experienced, late in life (in Philippians 3:10) Paul wrote of the passion that propelled him: "that I may know Him." What is he talking about? Didn't he already know Jesus more closely than perhaps anyone else ever will? Of course he did. But the more he knew Jesus, the more he wanted to know Him. The more Paul progressed in spiritual strength, the more thirsty for God He became. The writer of Psalm 42 has a similar thirst he writes " As a deer pants for the water brooks so pants my soul for you. When Christ told us in John 4:14 saying "whoever drinks of the water that I give him will never thirst". Just like these all you can eat places however you become hungry again you thirst again but can continue to be left empty. Maybe that place with all its options still did not have the meal you sought. Either way your body was left hungry again. Our human body's will continue to remain left unsatisfied in what ever we quench it with in the world, whatever sinful desire we try to satisify, or simply try to find happiness without God. So why dose a believer thirst so much even after receiving this water that is given from Christ in John? The water dose not destroy your thirst. If this were the case you have no need for his water afterward when you drink of this Christ given water it gives you a spring so you know where to find a drink when you need it. As you drink more from this fountain you require more from it, you want others to drink from it. People who do not receive this drink will continually be unfulfilled not knowing what it is they don't have not sure just what is missing from there life. A Christian's life can become arid even after receiving this fountain for many reasons, one very common is drinking from the fountains of the world and not retreating to his eternal fountain to refresh his soul and body. Matthew 5:6 a thirsting desire for the Lord and his rightouness is a blessing. This is because the holly spirit is at work in you. When the Holly Spirit is at work it too like your human conscious is putting your mind and body to work. In 1 Cor. 6:19 tells us our body's are temples and the holy spirit dwells and works there. Find blessing in your thirst for God. Retreat often to this fountain and replenish your soul, Read his word Pray never ceasing to want to be close and talk to God, Grow and be happy. God gives us this desire to want unending happiness. When you require a true thirst for God you long for even more. Do you thirst for God? Thirst is God-planed, for part of growth of a soul toward it"s heavenly home. Lets Pray " Lord God I want to Know you, I want to be close to you. Lord please let me meditate your word not just read it. Lord I thank you for the water you quench my thirst for you with. Like my Grandpa and the apostle Paul I want to know you and share you with the world. Help teach me how to gain refuge in you. Lord help me to see with your eyes speak with your tongue and hear with your ears. Lord I thank you for the cost of this fountain that is given freely to me. it is through your holy name I thank you and please forgive me Lord when I find retreat from the world, but thank you when become arid and thirsty that you are there to refresh me. Forgive my sins and it is through your sons name I pray Lord Amen"