Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wondrous works to the children of man! For He satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul He fills with good things.
Psalm 107:8-9

Soul hunger, that yearning of our heart to know and experience God, is often felt as a nameless longing for something we can’t out our finger on. We feel like there’s something missing, and we try to fill the big empty space inside with whatever we can find.

Sometime we try to fill it with human love, but still it’s there. We search for the “soul mate” that we think might fill it, but nobody quite satisfies that longing.

Drugs and alcohol can numb the longing temporarily but don’t satisfy it. The accumulation of wealth and possessions distracts us momentarily. Adrenalin thrills can do the same thing but when we come down from that high, the soul hunger is still there.

Saint Augustine wrote, about 400 AD, “You have made us for Yourself, Oh God, and our soul is restless until it finds its rest in You.”

There’s a God-shaped void in our hearts that can only be filled by Him, and Jesus is the key. He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.”

There is no other way to satisfy that soul hunger but by letting Jesus take over, forgive my sin and be the Lord of my life. Then the void is filled, the hunger satisfied, and the longing for God is gloriously fulfilled. “Oh, taste, a see that the Lord is good!”

Lord Jesus, thank You for revealing this to my heart so many years ago. Thank You for the privilege of a life lived knowing You, being led by You and fulfilled by Your presence. Amen.

Pastor Dan Giles