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| Revelations and Glory series |


* God’s Glory Concealed
* Revelations that Change Us
* We Need Spiritual Hunger
* Why Am I in a Dry Season?







We have all felt lost at times. We’ve all struggled with questions about our purpose. Ever found yourself asking “Why am I here?” or “What’s the point?” We could describe this as a sense of dissatisfaction. We are no longer satisfied with where we’re at, with what life has to offer. While it might be unpleasant, this is the first step in an amazing and powerful journey. We’re feeling the first hint of a desire for something more. We’re becoming aware of an appetite we have, a hunger not for physical things like food but for spiritual things like meaning and purpose.



We saw last time that the solution to this journey is found in the way that God reveals Himself, reveals His glory to us. He doesn’t tell us everything plainly but asks us to press into the hunger as we pursue revelation from Him. We saw the promise of how we will be changed when we “search things out”. As we behold His glory, we are transformed into His likeness and experience the fulfillment of our purpose, that we were made in the image of God.



The pattern that’s demonstrated here begins with our desire to search things out and ends with a promise that we will be satisfied. But this isn’t the only time we see this promise in Scripture.



The Promise to the Hungry



Notice the similarity to the promise in Jeremiah 29:



You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13



Like we discussed in the first post, this displays God’s glory by showing us His character, that in His unapproachable glory He has chosen to be approachable. What’s required of us to approach though? What’s required of us to receive revelation? It’s not intelligence or wisdom (see Luke 10:21), because (as we’ve seen) this revelation does not come from our own reading of the Scripture, but from His willingness to reveal the truth to us as we seek.



If not intelligence, what must we have to receive revelation? Spiritual hunger: a relentless desire to know Him. God has made it so simple. To know Him, we must simply want to know Him. In this way, access to God is not reserved for the smartest or wisest among us but all of us have just as much opportunity to receive it. He is so good! He is so kind!



We’ve seen here that as we pursue Him we are changed. That there is a promise to us when we “search things out”. Jesus used the illustration of hunger several times in His ministry to show us ...