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Satisfy Your Hunger
Have you ever had your hunger for something take over, where you could never satisfy it?
Maybe you might have been in one of those moods where you wanted to eat something, but you are not sure exactly what that something is that you have a hunger for. Then, even when you do finally decide on something to eat, you can only eat so much of it until you are full. Then, after a while, you will eventually hunger again.
If you could partake of something that could cure your hunger, totally satisfy it, would you?
There is someone who can fully satisfy your spiritual hunger: Jesus Christ! He said, “I am the Bread of Life…I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world (John 6:48, 51)”. Physical food will only fill us for a while; spiritual food will fill us and satisfy us for eternity!
Jesus Christ gave Himself for us that we might live forever in Heaven with Him.
As Christians, we remember His sacrifice for us each first day of the week (Acts 2:42; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:26). That is something we should desire to do! We look forward to it each first day of each week. Do you desire the things of Christ? Do you strive to be like Him? Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6)”.
Satisfy your hunger spiritually by feeding on Jesus Christ! Accept His offer of salvation.
Salvation: Hear - Believe - Repent - Confess - Be Baptized - Live Faithfully
Content by Richard Dillon
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Full Buckets – Colossians 3:15
Text: Colossians 3:15
The surest sign that you’re carrying a full bucket is wet feet.
Are your feet wet?
Like buckets, our hearts tend to spill what’s in them, and that’s Paul’s point in this verse: “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body” (Colossians 3:15).
I suppose most of us struggle with the absence of peace.
- I’ll never get all this stuff done.
- How will my kids turn out?
- What if I lose my job?
- What will the MRI reveal?
And we fret and wring our hands and take more antacids.
We feel unsettled, distracted, nervous, and all this usually manifests itself in our interactions with others. We become distant or withdrawn, or perhaps irritable, even with the people we love the most, or perhaps especially with them.
Only it’s not supposed to be like that.
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,” Paul wrote. The word rule often referred to an umpire in a game and meant to control (Kittel).
In other words, Paul is saying that our hearts should be governed, ordered, controlled by peace. But how?
It won’t happen when you seek it on your own. You’ll never get everything in your life arranged perfectly so that peace naturally comes.
Peace in your heart will come when you’re filled with the peace of Christ.
Then your feet will be wet. Then you’ll feel peace and live peace and radiate peace.
Today, for a few minutes, pause and empty your heart of all anxieties and distractions and ask the Lord to give you his peace, to fill you with peace. Ask him to let it rule your life. It’s what he wants, of course.
Shortly before he died he left us with these words: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid” (John 14:27).
I hope your feet get wet today.
Content by Donald W. Treadway
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