Hosanna Restoration Church

We have talked about hungering for the Word and the ways of God and the importance of knowing what it is that God has for us; but what happens if it stops at knowing about these things? What happens if we hear someone else’s revelation but do not bother to own it?

We can hear someone and say amen. We can agree that it sounds good and put it in our memory bank for a later time just in case we need it, but what happens if we do that and then it seems not to work. Unless we own that truth, we will not have what it takes to understand and stand. Jesus spoke of those who hunger and thirst, being filled. We can hunger for things and want things and do nothing to bring them about. Remember the story of the chicken doing all the things necessary to bake the bread. No one wanted to work but everyone wanted to eat. Many people want what God has but are not willing to take part in the process necessary to bring it about.

The promises of God must be washed down in order for them to be digested. We must be washed in the water of the Word of God. I am not certain about the medical facts in what I am about to say, but I would guess that it would be miserable to die from undigested food. If a person had all the food they could ever desire but no water or liquid of any kind to wash it down; well it just could not be good.

The same could be said of a person who has all sorts of spiritual food available but does not do the washing necessary for digestion. A person could go to every meeting every time a door was open in a five hundred mile radius and never have the necessary nutrition to fight off a sniffle.

Early today I was lying in bed thinking I should get up when the Holy Spirit began to wash me with scriptures that I had been digesting recently. It was truly like getting under warm covers on a cold night, only better. As I lay there drinking them in I was reminded of the importance of thirst. God said, “Open your mouth and I will fill it.” Jesus said on the cross “I thirst.”

Just as we must have water to live, so we must have the water of the Word of God to stand and keep standing. Without enough water we grow weak and it is the same without enough of the Word of God. In the physical, dehydration can sneak up on you and if you do not do something about it, it can kill you. There are warning signs and it is best to heed them. There are also warning signs spiritually. Signs like being filled with doubt, fear, or refusing to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Or perhaps rationalizing why you just do not have time for hungering and thirsting after God. It is time to drink deeply when these things start to happen. Are you thirsty?