A W Tozer is one of my favorite authors. I have been reading for a second time “The Crucified Life; How to Live out a Deeper Christian Experience.” It is a book of the writings of Tozer compiled and edited by James L. Snyder. Tozer wrote, “The only Christians you want to listen to are the ones who give you more of a hunger for God.”
That is my greatest desire. When I bring a message on Sunday or write a daily devotion, I don’t just want to inform or spoon-feed my thoughts or ideas, I want to make you hungry, hungry for more of God.
I walked into a store the other day and was assaulted with the most delightfully sweet fragrance, and immediately I was hungry for what they were baking. The aromas emanating from the ovens triggered something in my brain that overrode the fact that I had just eaten! I should not be hungry, but oh, I surely was.
That should be the way it is with us spiritually. Our preachers should be creating in us a hunger for more of God. They should be making the love of Jesus our Lord the all-consuming desire of our life. We should walk away from our church services wanting more of what we experienced there.
It was at the end of Paul’s life, after walking with and serving the Lord for so long, that he wrote: “I want to know Christ.” [Philippians 3:10]
May we be like Paul, even more hungry for Christ at the end of our life than we are now.
