I'm Hungry

Video of the Week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkij5AfAfIw

[For some reason, it won't let me put a image in for the video, but please go check it out! It's master illusionist Harris III spreading some holiday cheer! I am honored to know him and his wife Kate (who just had a baby!), and he is one of the greatest guys I have ever met. His ministry changes lives daily, and it's so refreshing to see someone living out the faith like he does. Go check him out on YouTube! He's got some live tours and DVDs too...]

Life Update: 8am final tomorrow, and then I'll be home free. My life update really isn't going to be too long, because my life has been consumed by four things over the past week: (1) being sick, (2) coffee, usually accompanied by studying, (3) friends, and (4) food/work, they both are kind of the same in my case. I also decided that I'm going to try and get an internship in a zoo or sanctuary in Australia, so I have been looking into that too. I finally got to explore some shops downtown with one of my friends, so that was a lot of fun to actually get to know my city a bit! Aaaaaaaaand we have a Christmas tree and lights for our apartment, and just cause, here's a pic!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

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Alright, y'all, I'm just gonna be real and honest for this post. (I only say y'all when I'm about to get intense...not really, but yeah, kinda...) Go back and look at the title. Yeah, sure, I could go order a pizza or eat some eggs from my fridge, but that wouldn't help one bit. I'm talking about a different kind of hunger. (No, not the Hunger Games...)

I hate to admit it, but I'm guilty. I'm guilty of settling. Settling for the wonderful relationship that I already have with my God. To be quite frank, I'm too easily satisfied. I had this realization a couple of days (maybe a week) ago while I was laying in bed. I was just trying to go to sleep when I herd Him speak to me. And I was so convicted because of what He said. He made it clear that I had reached a point where I was starting to get content in my relationship with Him. I was starting to settle.

He made it clear that He still wants to lead me into deeper and greater things. But here I am about to just be happy where I am and not even thinking about moving forward some more. The problem was, after that encounter, I didn't know what to do.

It's so easy for us to go to church and sing songs that say "Onwards we draw towards Your light / Desperate we seek to know you more and more / Further we look beyond ourselves / To your love / To your love / 'Cause we are running / We're chasing after all that You are..." But what does that mean? How do we chase after Him?

Well, these aren't easy questions, and they're surely not questions that I fully know the answers to. We always hear about Him pursuing us, but somehow we don't put as much weight on our side of pursuing Him.

Psalms 42:1-2 says, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?"

That verse couldn't describe any better the emotion I felt the other night (a couple of nights after the first) and still carry around with me as I sit here writing this. I don't know a better word for it that hunger. And it should be the normal state for all Christians. 

Unfortunately, we do have an enemy, and he takes full advantage of all the barriers that cause us to either tone down our hunger or make us think we're full. But we have to realize that we need Him. He is our sustenance, and it should be our joy to sit down at the banquet table with our love every chance we can get.

(Just as complete side note, I received prayer from some friends today while I was at one of my friend's houses. One of the people praying specifically prayed for this hunger, and I know it's something that God wants nothing more than to keep filling and filling and filling, over and over again. Just when I think I'm almost full, He will continue to remind me that there's still more.)


Megan

Fun Fact: According to a survey, 7 out of 10 households in the U.S. claim to use candles.