February 18

Leviticus 6:1-7:27

Mark 3:7-30

Psalm 37:1-11

Proverbs 10:3,4

"The Lord will not let the godly go hungry, but he refuses to satisfy the craving of the wicked."

~Proverbs 10:3~

Last year, I read a book called Shadow by D. R. Evans. In this story, the heroine (a woman named Catherine) is captured by the villain Malthazzar and brought to his palace. Once inside, he brings her to a banquet hall with a huge table piled with food. He tells her to eat as much as she wants. Since she is hungry, she begins to eat. But she soon realizes that this food that Malthazzar has offered her does not satisfy. She feels even hungrier after eating it. Her first instinct is to eat more, but thankfully for her, she figured out what this "food" was doing to her and she stopped. She would rather eat nothing than eat something that made her hunger worse.

I loved this picture of consuming something that doesn't satisfy our hunger. It's exactly what we do all the time. We all long for something and often times we try to fill ourselves with the wrong thing. If we are looking to anything other than God, we will be left unsatisfied. 

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled."

~Matthew 5:6~