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Thoughts on Today's Verse...

The Bible cries out with an essential and recurring truth: God quenches the thirst and satisfies the hunger of those who genuinely seek him. Jesus even said in his Sermon on the Mount:

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." (Matthew 5:6)

We try to soothe the ache in our souls and fill the emptiness in our hearts with what is only a temporary satisfaction — an ache and emptiness that only God's presence can fill. Let's refuse every false satisfaction and tempting distraction and truly seek the Lord who alone can satisfy our spiritual thirst and fill the emptiness and hunger of our hearts. There IS a God-shaped hole in all of us that only he can fill!

My Prayer...

Forgive us, dear Father, for trying to find the satisfaction for our souls' hunger in what is not truly sustaining or satiating. We confess the areas of temptation that most often leads us to stumble into false satisfaction — sex, status, possessions, economic security, chemical dependency, busyness, abusing food, buying new stuff, body identity, or a host of other possible vulnerabilities — are all too true in us. As we seek you, dear Lord, please make your presence known as you satisfy our spiritual thirst and satiate our souls' deep hunger. In the name of Jesus, our Lord, we pray. Amen.