The Sign Of Hunger For The Bible

The Sign Of Hunger For The Bible*
Spiritual Revival Series Part VI by Margaret Lukasik

 


Spiritual Revival Series Part VI 

Usually when someone is physically ill they lose their appetite. In fact, when a person is deathly ill, the doctor and nurses will often pull loved ones aside and say, “You'll need to get them to eat if they're going to recover.”  This actually happened to our family this past week when my husband's mother almost died in the hospital.  Her illness was actually caused from not eating properly and drinking enough water.  She was cautioned about her poor eating, but she refused to listen.

So at 85 years old, she found herself in the hospital with the doctors not giving her much hope to live.  Without going into detail about her problem, she had caused much damage to her body.  So now when she needed to eat more than ever, she still refused.  All she wanted was pain killers.  I realized the severity of her condition when the nurse asked us if all of her business was in order.    

Even before she went into emergency surgery, the surgeon didn't have any problem telling her that she may not wake up when it was over.  I didn't realize they could be so blunt!  Of course we prayed that God would work through the doctor and heal her.  When the surgery was over, the doctor was amazed at her rapid recovery after she was taken to ICU.  But the nurses kept reminding us that she needed to eat in order to regain her strength after she was off the intervenes.
  
My mother-in-law was once a very good eater, but somehow along the way she lost her appitite for food and it made her deathly ill. The same is true when someone is sick spiritually.  They lose their  appetite for spiritual things.  They lose their appetite or hunger for the Bible and begin to starve their spirits, risking spiritual death. In fact, when you see a believer who has lost his or her hunger for God's Word, it is a sure sign that person needs to be revived, just as my mother-in-law did when she would go in and out of constant pain so severe that she would tire, fall asleep and then have to be revived in order to get her ready for surgery.   
 
At least three times in Psalm 119, the psalmist tells us that one of the ways God will revive you when you are spiritually weak is through His Word.
 
In verse 25 he says,
 
My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
 
In verse 107 he says,
 
I am afflicted very much; revive me, O LORD, according to Your word.
 
And then in verse 154 he says it again,
 
Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
 
If you are going to be revived, it will be in large part according to or through the Word of God.  In fact, what the psalmist is literally saying is, "Give me life.  Revive me through Your Word."  The more you feed on God's Word, the more you hunger for it.
 
So a critical vital sign of the spiritual life is a hunger for the Bible or God's Word.  There is a renewed hunger for spiritual truth when you are revived.  As you feed upon His Word, it will give you more life, it will give you more strength, and it will give you spiritual vitality.

I know this is true because as my husband and I read healing verses together while the doctor operated on his mother, we both knew that she would survive.  We knew that she would be renewed, even though we heard the chances for her survival were almost impossible.  But just as it is her responsibility to eat right and keep her health for physical strength, we must all take responsibility to read the Bible for spiritual strength.
 
Spiritual Revival Series:
Part I, Joy  Part II, Prayer  Part III, Christian Passion





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