In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Hungering and Thirsting for God, Part One.

Have you ever stood in front of the refrigerator?

It could be full or half full full or maybe a little less, and

try to find something to eat.

And sometime it's full, and you just stand there with the door open, and you just keep looking

and looking and looking.

And it's not that there's nothing there, there's just so much that you can't make up your

mind.

And so finally,

you choose a few things, and since you don't really find anything you really and truly think

will satisfy, you just pick up a little bit of this out in the other. And so what do you do?

You spend the rest of the evening snacking here and snacking there. Getting a little fatter here,

a little less dissatisfied over here.

And what happens is when the night's over, you've eaten a pile of junk, but you're not happy

about it. And you're not satisfied. It's just what you chose. Well, you know, that's the

way a lot of people are living. They're looking around, they'll choose a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a little bit of the other,

a little bit of this, and a little bit of that.

And you know what's happening? What's going on is simply this, that while they may be satisfying their hungers,

temporarily, it's not satisfying them.

Because you see, God created us with hunger.

He created as a hunger, for example, for many things in life.

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