eagerly desire the spirituals

How do we crave for or hunger after things pertaining to the spiritual realm in accordance to 1 Corinthians 14:1? I know we will be filled if we hunger and thirst after righteousness, but exactly how do we do that? How do we continually seek the Lord's face and ways, and especially after we are already filled?

For natural food, we get hungry after every few hours...and we need variety of foods for reasons of nutrition and tastes. Some people do limit themselves to particular foods because of diet, beliefs, culture, habit or preference, but most, i think, would go for different kinds I would... Japanese, Italian, Western, Chinese, Thai, Soups, Noodles, and even within Chinese cuisine, there's the different dialects. You should try the foo chow (my dialect group) fishballs - the ones with the meat inside, red rice wine chicken with mee sua or tang hoon...ooh...delicious. hehe... I'm getting hungry...

So i believe it is the same with spiritual hunger... that our spirit being is made in such a way that we need spiritual food - the presence of God, the word of God. Jesus said "My food is to do the will of God". He talked about the bread that will satisfy all hunger, and water that will quench all thirst. He said He was the bread of life. He compared to the kingdom of God to leaven that was in the bread. The Word also says that healing is the children's bread. So when we come to the Lord, there is a satisfaction and a filling.

The more we talk about or think about particular or preferred foods, the more we want to eat them. We would start looking out for the foods, even plan when to eat them. It is very much similar when we talk about things of the Spirit - and God is Spirit. We begin to look out for spiritual things which would satisfy us, like the Word of God, spending time in God's presence whether praying or worshiping, being together with God's people, and doing things that would please God.

Let's eagerly desire the spirituals... Let's begin to talk about spiritual things, and we can all be hungry for God together!! :D

spiritual songs

These things have been full in my heart for the last few months.

As mentioned in the previous post, it's just wonderful when we sing in tongues and in understanding (known language) from our heart... just praises to God, and what is on His Heart. I learnt that He is always pleased when we praise Him in Spirit and in truth, because this reaches Him as a sweet smelling offering. It's so easy to just "enter into His Presence" - here the younger of my 2 younger brothers would disagree with me and say we "become more aware of His Presence". Well i won't disagree with Him... to me it's a different way of saying the same thing... Anyway, this is my blog...haha...

So back to my point. It's easy when i sing songs from my heart. I remember when i was travelling in this old bone-shaker of a taxi down the hills in another nation. I sang the whole way down - a total of 2-3 hours- song after song, almost not caring whether it bothered the cab-driver or the other 3 passengers i was with. Probably not. They sang with me sometimes, and at other times, they kept silent, or even fell asleep. Not the driver of course... (grin). There was a period of time the radio was on - the driver was not a believer, and my voice was competing with the radio and naturally, the road noises. I still remember the driver vividly - it's been 5 months now. He spoke some Chinese, so that's how we communicated.

The roads were pretty dangerous, and at points, even treacherous, and we chanced upon an accident between a car and a motor-cyclist. I believe the motor-cyclist died. I had this strong sense that God was having me sing so that there would not be fear in us, or at least me. I really don't know for sure. I just know that there was a purpose in me singing. But to say that my singing brought the protection of God upon all of us seems really far-fetched.

So... i'll stick with saying there was a purpose in me singing... and there was a peace and a boldness that i remember when i sang. Usually i'm a sensitive person in that i will not impose on others. I mean if i knew that my singing disturbed others, i will just shut up. Well, that time was different...

We reached our destination that evening after travelling for almost 8 hours, safe. Tired, shaken to the bone in the car, but safe. Praise the Lord.