Meditate on this quotation and the bible passages that follow it:

 

There are large numbers of people in the Christian Church who seem to spend their whole lives seeking something which they can never find, seeking for some kind of happiness and blessedness. They go around from meeting to meeting, and convention to convention, always hoping they are going to get this wonderful thing, this experience that is going to fill them with joy, and flood them with ecstasy. They see that other people have had it, but they themselves do not seem to get it... Now that is not surprising. We are not meant to hunger and thirst after experiences; we are not meant to hunger and thirst after blessedness. If we want to be truly happy and blessed we must hunger and thirst after righteousness. We must not put blessedness or happiness or experience in the first place.  ~ Dr. D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

 

Isaiah 55: 55:1 "Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.

 

Jeremiah 2: 12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, 13 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

 

Paul Tripp begins his marriage counseling seminars by having everyone repeat this statement: "I am the biggest problem in my marriage." We must stop self-righteously believing that everything that is wrong in my world lies outside of me.

 

If we are ever to put our ceaseless hunger and thirst to rest, we must affix it upon righteousness. Not upon anything else.

How do you know what you are hungering for?

What are you hungering for?

What do you need to believe about God so that you can put those hungers to rest?