Our nature hungers for God even when it broke with Him long ago, perhaps the more intensely the longer ago it was. It experiences a sort of famine. But the devil rides it and spurs it on, to distract it from its own need. he changes its hunger into haste. That is why people today are in such a hurry. Their speed is to distract their hunger. -Louis Evely
Do we feel the hunger pains? Or are we finding constant distractions to alleviate the striking pangs that come our way. As Tozer puts it, the world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God, and the Church is famishing for want of His presence. The cure is simple. It is the experienced fullness of God. In that moment, when all anxieties of tomorrow and whirlwind of voices subside, then we are satisfied. It is no longer broken. He has repaired us together.
"Like the blind we grope along the wall,
feeling our way like men without eyes.
At midday we stumble as if it were twilight;
among the strong, we are like the dead.
See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and His glory appears over you.
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance." (Isa)
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