Mothers have this unique ability to precisely figure out
when you have just disobeyed, no matter how well you try to cover up and put up a “I
have no idea what you are talking about” face ! Phew !!
If you drive down to my house,
just round the corner is this fast food stall, which according to me, is the
best place in town for a particular variety of fried item which I shall leave
unnamed. Now we know that all junk food, however tasty it might be is unhealthy.
But somehow each time I cross that stretch, there is this sense of deep urge to
quickly grab a plate and relish it, even though there are strict orders from my
mom to avoid it. And the moment I step inside home, she figures it out and I have
no idea how !
Whether you agree or not, each of us have our own hungers –
physical, emotional and spiritual. We are designed and wired in such a way that
till that hunger is satisfied we can’t move on to things of higher purposes. In
the secular world this is explained by “Maslow’s Theory of Needs”. Dig into the
scriptures and you will find that Jesus takes this further and links hunger and
thirst to righteousness [Matt 5:6]. We are restless till we find “that which
will” satisfy that deep hunger in us. Most often we go to any means to gratify
that need, knowing full and well that the things the world offers to fulfill that
hunger is deadly and harmful.
Maybe it’s that sinful habit that you indulge in, or it’s
that addiction to work which is eating away into your relationships at home, or
it could even be your obsession to excel more and more, to climb up the
corporate ladder, or to keep working harder driven by the greed to make more
money.
Jack Higgins, the famous author, recognized for “The Eagle has landed”
was asked, “What do you now know, which you wished you had known much earlier
in life”. He replied, “I wish I had known then, that when you get to the top,
there is nothing there !” The loneliest moment in life is when you have just
experienced that which you thought will give you the ultimate pleasure and it
has let you down.
You need to recognize that our hungers remain unsatisfied
when we fill it with worldly food. Only God can fill that deepest longing in
our hearts and in-turn our hungers. The great theologian, Augustine, once said,
“Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in thee”
So today would you stop and be still, and allow God to fill
the hunger in you ?
"...He satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's"
Psalm 103:5
