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Psalm 107:9
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
This Psalm begins – Book 5 – the last book of the Psalms.
In it the Psalmist looks at people in difficult situations, who are desperate for God, and how He delivers them out of their despair. But, first of all, we are encouraged to – “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.”
The first set of people he considered were those God had redeemed from their foes, and brought them back from exile. He then looked at those who had wandered in the desert, lonely and hopeless, without food or water. Next, he turned to those taken captive by Satan and those prisoners of their own stupidity, having disobeyed God. Then the spotlight turned on those who deliberately turned away from God and got themselves into a complete mess.
Others went out to sea to try and get away from God or went about their work on the high seas and found that the sea demands the respect of all, as it is totally unpredictable and unharnessed, like those consumed by ambition.
But thanks and worship arose from all those who were saved from their circumstances, whatever those had been.
It’s the same today. No matter why people find themselves in their current circumstances, God can still save them. It doesn’t matter whether it was through a deliberate life of wickedness – through the introduction to and indulging in drugs or sexual promiscuity or perversion; through lethargic ignorance or independent selfishness; through uncontrollable events; or even through the evil schemes and actions of others – like physical or sexual abuse or even rape – God can still save. No addiction or anything else is beyond His healing power to restore the body, mind, soul and spirit. God is into wholeness and health.
There is a common thread, however. He saves those who call on His Name. I have to be desperate enough. That is why we often see God use the analogy of food and water. We cannot exist without both. And the same is true even once we are saved. We must eat and drink. Jesus is both the Living Water and Bread of Life. When we really hunger and thirst after Him, we will be satisfied. We will cease to try and satisfy the hunger and thirst anywhere else because He alone is able to do it.
Materialism can’t, other religions won’t, and people are unable to do it – it is a Divine Spiritual Vacuum that only Christ can fill. Jesus gives us His Holy Spirit, who is like a spring of water welling up from within us (see John 4:13-14).
Jesus is, Himself, the Bread of Life (see John 6:35) – the Word of God and He has given us the Bible to feed on every day – if you don’t, you will hunger and stop the rivers flowing from within you.
That is another reason Jesus gave us ‘Communion’ – to remember His death, burial and resurrection and to give us His Bread and Wine (His Body & Blood) to satisfy our hunger and thirst and to remind us of the only way they can be satisfied (see John 6:48-58).
Even this devotional can only be, at best, a ‘breakfast cereal’ – it is designed for you to want more.
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