Can you imagine life if we never hungered? If eating didn’t give us pleasure and satisfaction? If we didn’t need to eat to live?

The truth is: We are hardwired to hunger. We have a biological impulse to desire food—especially when our stomachs are empty.

You were made to hunger, and to satisfy that hunger by eating.

You don’t need a PhD or MD to know you need nourishment to live.

And God, in his grace and infinite wisdom, made you to experience hunger, and to act on that desire, that physiological impulse.

And it’s not any different for our souls.

He’s made us to have a spiritual impulse to desire him.

Just as our physical bodies hunger for nourishment that will satisfy us, likewise our souls hunger for nourishment that will give us joy, comfort, contentment, love, peace for the present and a hope for the future.

Deep down we know something is missing.

We may try to ignore it or fill it with something that won’t satisfy, but the truth is without Jesus, we’re empty and broken, wicked and weak, desperate and dying.

We need hope and healing and life. We need something—or someone— that will satisfy our deepest longings and meet our greatest needs.

The question is: What satisfies you? What satisfies your deepest desires and longings? What satisfies that hunger in you?

Not physical food. Not any thing: Not that house or that car or that job or more money or those shoes or your team winning that game or getting that grade or getting into that school.

Not people: Not your spouse or your parents or a child or a friend or boyfriend or girlfriend.

Ultimately, you won’t be truly satisfied with anything this world has to offer or that you can earn for yourself.

What will satisfy you?

Jesus, only Jesus.

Jesus is the answer to that critical question.