What Do You Hunger For?

One of my favorite songs is "Hunger" by Florence and the Machines.  One of the lines that keeps repeating in the song is "We all have a hunger".  Florence says the lyrics were "written in an effort to understand the ways I looked for love in things that were not love."

How many of us do that?  I dare say all of us do or have at some point in our lives looked for love in things that "were not love"....things such as money, possessions, work, drugs, food, alcohol, sex, gambling, approval.  We search for things to fill the brokenness we all have inside.  

This world is filled with pain and suffering, and it is impossible to escape completely.  Even people who seem to "have it made" will at some point have pain in their lives.  Friends may betray..  Loved ones will pass away.  The list goes on and on.

It can be easy to escape the pain.  This world is filled with all manner of means to escape rather than deal with the pain.  Those things, however, are mere band aids that only cover the wound, but never heal. The fix is temporary at best.  

The good news is that real love will heal and satisfy your hunger.  Real love, however, is not found in relationships or the perfect home or the perfect job.  It is not found in any material possession or drug.  It is not found in comfort food.  
                                                                                                
Perfect love is found in God.  "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is now made perfect in love." ~ 1 John 4:16-18

Yes, Jesus is the ONLY fix for the hunger in your soul.  Nothing else works. Why not end your search now and fill yourself with God's perfect love?  You will not regret it.