Seeking after Him
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6
Desire is an inward longing for something man does not have but for which he senses a need. Hunger and thirst are appetites God gave humans to make them aware of their various needs. Man hungers for food and obtains it or perishes. Man hungers for love and searches for it or he wastes away in the emptiness of himself.
Hunger for God's Word evidences the spiritual appetite God gives
Christians to make them aware of spiritual needs. Man is aware of his
physical needs by nature, but he cannot be aware of his spiritual needs
unless God, by His Spirit, makes him aware of them.
Because God does not impose Himself on man, He will not require that man abandon his pursuit of the world to follow after Jesus, but HE will be there to enlighten the person who determines of his own free will to search after Him.
There has to be an awareness of need followed by man's desire to have what he needs. The desire moves him to fervently fix his mind on Jesus.
In other words, man's desire for the things of God sets into action his will to receive them.
But the Word tells us that a time is coming when men will not seek after the truth of God, they will not desire sound doctrine. Man's reprobate mind will be so desirous of his own will and his own way that he will deliberately set about to surround himself with teachers who will affirm his godless pursuits, will justify his ungodly behavior.
When that happens, man will be lost in the fog of his own deception. In his pursuit of the things he esteems above the LORD, he will lose his way to the salvation that Christ has supplied through His propitiatory life, death and resurrection.
That loss removes from him the blessed hope that promises eternal life. Our loving Father God desires that all men come to a knowledge of salvation so He strives to orchestrate the lives of men so they will nurture their spiritual hunger above all others.
Because the Holy One desires mankind's eternal good, HE wants lost, unregenerate man to stop his ears to the teachers who say what their itching ears desire to hear--and to listen for His truth above all else.
Because God does not impose Himself on man, He will not require that man abandon his pursuit of the world to follow after Jesus, but HE will be there to enlighten the person who determines of his own free will to search after Him.
There has to be an awareness of need followed by man's desire to have what he needs. The desire moves him to fervently fix his mind on Jesus.
In other words, man's desire for the things of God sets into action his will to receive them.
But the Word tells us that a time is coming when men will not seek after the truth of God, they will not desire sound doctrine. Man's reprobate mind will be so desirous of his own will and his own way that he will deliberately set about to surround himself with teachers who will affirm his godless pursuits, will justify his ungodly behavior.
When that happens, man will be lost in the fog of his own deception. In his pursuit of the things he esteems above the LORD, he will lose his way to the salvation that Christ has supplied through His propitiatory life, death and resurrection.
That loss removes from him the blessed hope that promises eternal life. Our loving Father God desires that all men come to a knowledge of salvation so He strives to orchestrate the lives of men so they will nurture their spiritual hunger above all others.
Because the Holy One desires mankind's eternal good, HE wants lost, unregenerate man to stop his ears to the teachers who say what their itching ears desire to hear--and to listen for His truth above all else.
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