Recently someone said to me quite upset: “Well, listen, I can’t just make myself hungry for God. Either you are hungry or you are not!”

But how do things look in the natural with our hunger and feeling full? If we constantly fill ourselves up with something in between, we are not hungry.

It is exactly the same in the spiritual. If we continually fill our spirit and soul with news, entertainment or the worries of the world, we lack the desire for God. But God wants us to desire Him and His word.

In the Acts of the Apostles we are told about a man of whom it says:

This man … sought to hear the word of God!
Acts 13:7

God offers us His word because He knows that we need it as good, healthy, satisfying food for spirit, soul and body. You must fill your inner self again and again with the good that God offers you.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 5:14