The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel. [Judges 2]
Joshua left a mark on the world. Man, to die with that on your gravestone...what greater words could be said about a man than that the people around Him served the Lord during his lifetime?
Think on that.
Now, we compare hunger with that German word "machen" (to make or to do).
On the one hand, hunger is a deep God-given instinct that we are meant to be made more by something or someone else.
Making and Doing are God-given instincts that we are meant to make ourselves part of the world.
We build, move, create, design, blow up. We construct, engineer, craft. We stitch, draw, compose, perform. We reproduce ourselves. We give ourselves away. We sell out. We offer ourselves. We hold nothing back. We invest ourselves.
Consider how Godly this impulse is.
Have you ever totally given yourself to something--put yourself into it? Have you ever seen someone in the things that they do?
Believe me, you don't have to look very far to see this. Start by thinking of the quilt your grandmother gave you, or the picture your four-year old drew with crayons this morning.
She's in there. Right?
Walk with me on this one. It's huge.
That is how we know the God "hungers" because He created. The whole idea of love demands that we desire or hunger.
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