Our Torah portion this week includes the rather remarkable commandment: And you shall eat and be satisfied (Deut. 8:10), which means that God desires for us to receive the goodness of life itself. Taste and see that the LORD is good. Addictions, cravings, lusts, etc., arise from a refusal to be satisfied, by hungering for more than the blessing of the present moment. 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 (Jer. 2:13). The living waters are present for us, but we will only find them if we open our hearts to the wonder of God in this moment. We can break the spell of continual dissatisfaction, of the power of greed, ambition, and so on, when we discover that our constant hunger is really a cry for God and His blessing. This is the blessed “hunger and thirst” given by the Spirit (Matt. 5:6). Our sense of inner emptiness is an invitation to come to the waters and drink life. So come to Gods table and ask the Lord Yeshua to give you the water that will satisfy your hearts true thirst for life...
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:35:00 +0000
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