"If you aren’t hungry for God, you are full of yourself."

A thought by Mark Batterson, (2013-09-24) from his book, All In: You Are One Decision Away From aTotally Different Life (Kindle Locations 151-152). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

Pretty searching statement.

Here is another one by Mark, “Here’s our fundamental problem: we try to do God’s job for Him. We want to do amazing things for God. And that seems noble, but we’ve got it backward. God wants to do amazing things for us.”

If He does it we don’t get credit. We are so full of ourselves but what if we hungered after Him and what He wanted to do? I mean, it is amazing what we can do but compared to God.

I had a moment a few years back when I was Pastoring in Las Vegas. I happened to be up looking down on the Vegas valley and marveling at all that man had done. All of the houses, all of the unbelievable Casinos and I then looked over to Lone Mountain, the smallest of all the mountains that surround the Vegas valley and in its smallness it dwarfed all that man had done. The first verse of Psalm 121 (The Message) says, “I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.” But we hunger after ourselves and our abilities. We are so full of ourselves.

Granted God created us and gave us untold abilities and possibilities but they will be magnified connected with Him. So this year let’s hunger after Him and see Him work His wonder.

So where is your hunger being fed?

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