FAMISHED FOR THE WORD
In
our speaking of hunger, we have seen a relationship between physical and
spiritual hunger that is not often recognized by most people of the world. As a
physical life cannot be sustained without physical food, neither can a
spiritual life be sustained without spiritual food.
God
has given us physical hunger so that we can learn that life itself depends upon
him. It is not difficult to see that we need the physical food from his
creation to sustain us in body. We become aware of that every day, usually
around breakfast time.
From
this observation, we should learn that even in our souls and in our spirits, we
need his life-giving spiritual food.
Receiving spiritual food is not simply a one-time event when we are saved, but just
like our physical food, but we need it continually—even every day. As with our
experience in our physical life, our spiritual life may have come alive when we
are born again, but it needs to be sustained to remain healthy.
The Physical and
the Spiritual
Ours
is a world culture that is centered on the physical. Watch any TV show, look at
any of the advertisements, pick up any magazine, walk down to the mailbox and
get your mail, look at the billboards as you are driving—in every single aspect
of our life in the world, we see the emphasis on our physical well-being.