Title: How Hungry Are You?
Memorize: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6 (Nkjv)
Bible Reading: Psalms 42:1-8 (Nkjv)
[1] As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
[2] My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
[3] My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”
[4] When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
[5] Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.
[6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.
[7] Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
[8] The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life.
Message:
Today’s memory verse tells us that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled. When a person who is stranded in a desert sees water, he or she will rush to drink it to his or her fil. Similarly, when a person who has not eaten for days finally gets food to eat, such a person will eat until he or she is filled. This is how God wants us to thirst and hunger for righteousness.
My dear child, when you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you will stay away from sinful pleasures. You will also stay away from anything that will dishonour God. Also, if you have friends who refuse to repent from their sins, you will distance yourself from them so that they won’t lure you into sin. If you follow anyone on social media whose content causes you to sin, you will unfollow and block him or her.
Beloved, anything that will make you lose your appetite righteousness can hinder you from entering God’s Kingdom. Therefore, avoid such things.
Reflection:
How hungry or thirstų are you for God?
Bible In One Year: Luke 1:1-23, Deuteronomy 31-32
Authors: Pastor E. A. Adeboye and Pastor Folu Adeboye