Love to hear from and know who is listening I enjoy cooking and I grew up in a family that had many great cooks. When I was younger my fathers family gathered for reunions, I think sometimes just to eat. I have 24 first cousins and I had seven Aunts and Uncles and they were all amazing cooks. There always more than enough food, enough you could feed a small army. I was taught by my conservative parents that I was to eat whatever was put in front of me or go hungry. My mother was not a short order cook, at least not until she started having grandchildren, then all the rules went out the door and she made each child exactly what they wanted. My mother made some meals because the were cheap and would feed a lot of people. I still make many of those meals and I consider them, comfort food. She made goulash from a recipe that was handed down to her from her mother. One of my favorite meals my mother made was sauerkraut and weenies. If my mother called me in the morning and invited me over for dinner and told me she was making one of my favorite meals, even if I got hungry, I wouldn't make a trip to the convenience store before dinner and get something to snack on because that would ruin my appetite for her good cooking. The junk food would quench my appetite for the good food! Sin in your life does the same thing. Sin quenches your appetite for Gods word. The definition of the word quench is to satisfy one thirst by drinking or to extinguish a fire. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 ESV Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Just like you can be hungry for your favorite food, you also can have an appetite for sin. We all have a desire to satisfy our fleshly appetite. A fleshy appetite is having an inner desire to satisfy your sinful hunger. In the book of Galatians, God's word tells us what it means to have a fleshly appetite. Galatians 5:19-21 ESV Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Are you hungry for the things of the world or are you spiritually hungry? It's not hard to comprehend what it’s like to be physically hungry. Do we feel a similar craving for spiritual food? Jesus said, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. We live in a time when people have all they want to eat. They constantly entertain themselves. They are restless and go from one pleasure to the next. Yet they feel empty and depressed because there is something missing deep inside. 2.3 billion people around the world experience food insecurity, meaning they did not have consistent access to food and often faced uncertainty about where their next meal will come from. Of those, about 864 million people face severe food insecurity, sometimes going without food for an entire day or more. When I am even just a little bit hungry I will say I am starving to death, if the truth be known I have never not known where my next meal would come from.Matthew 5:6 ESV Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. In Matthew Jesus tell us we are to have a spiritual desire, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. That’s not just a mild craving. That’s an intense feeling, a desire to do what’s right and to be right in the sight of God. We need to pursue or hunger and thirst for what is good for spiritual growth!Support the show

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