hungry

When you get to know God at a whole new level, there's an overflow of love, blessing and grace to the extent we become more and more hungry for Him.

It's a bit hard to summarize all of today, it was overwhelming but in a good way. When we're hungry for God, He'll fill us with His spirit, His love, His blessing. Just a few things I was blessed through:

- when you open up to embrace the Holy Spirit... you experience God in a whole new way
- we can't ignore the trinity... God = Jesus = Holy Spirit, so we need an equal balance because although there are three... they're still one
- how intimate we are with God is a reflection of our hunger for Him and our desire to know Him more (for me, I'm doing this through prayer and reading His word... today I learned about "Eating the Word" ... more on that later)
- there's an endless pit, well - whatever you want to call it - in our hearts, and we try to fill that with this world, relationships, materials etc. I've tried... and I'd never be full, I'd always be hungry and sometimes to the point of starving for something. Only God, Jesus, the Spirit can fill that, nothing else because it all fades... when God doesn't
- hearing God's voice is essential to develop a more personal relationship with Him (1 Samuel 3), otherwise when He speaks to us, we won't recognize His voice

I still have to pray and meditate on a lot of things I wrote down, it was a lot to take in.
Hunger is something we all experience, when we become hungry for God, it's more than just a physical hunger like when we want to eat. It's a hunger that hurts because its challenging, but it's a hunger that will be filled by God's love, Jesus' grace and the Spirit's life.

This week has been crazy... I need to just relax and catch up on sleep but I can't! Another week is coming up, and readings are piling up, oh joy :)