Read Proverbs 27:7

Read Proverbs 27:7  Have you ever been hungry?  I mean really hungry?  May be you didn't like what was for breakfast and you didn't eat very much.  Then you were outside playing hard; running and doing things.  Then suddenly, you realized that your stomach was growling and you were really hungry.  When you came into the house for lunch, it didn't matter what was on the table, you were ready to eat!  It could be that your mother had a lunch that you didn't usually like very well.  But on this day, you were hungry; you were ready to eat anything!  You might have even have had seconds.  But you finally got full.  You pushed back from the table and groaned rubbing your full belly.  Then your mother brings out your favorite dessert.  But, you are so full that you can't even take a bite.  You look at that sweet dessert, but you just can't even take a little nibble.  That is what our verse is talking about.  Often in our lives, we are going along just fine.  Things are good and we are doing alright. It is like we are spiritually full.  We don't seem to need God.  But then something happens.  Things suddenly go wrong.  We get into mischief and suddenly we realize that we need God.  Our soul is hungry.  We are in trouble and we cry out to God in prayer.  We remember that we have left God out of our lives.  I believe that God lets bad things happen to us so that we will remember that we need Him.  Because we really do!   We really need God all of the time.  It is just that some of the time we don't realize that we need God.  We become proud and independent.  Just like our verse, we are so full that we don't even want honey.  We don't even realize that we need God.  I pray that God will give us a spiritual hunger for Him.  I pray that we will realize that we need God every day.  I want to love God more and more every day, don't you?