A brand new baby is a hungry animal. Right away you know they are alive and kicking because they are hungry. They will let you know in no small way that it is time to feed them and feeding is three hours or four hours apart and in the middle of the night and a nursing mom can't send daddy to warm the bottle, she is in charge.
This fact of life makes one wonder about people calling themselves Christians. The 'new birth' is called that because that is exactly what it is. Every human being physically born into this world is born alive and kicking, but their innermost man, their spirit, is separated from their creator and they are in a state of death, spiritually. From the outward appearance you would not know this condition, but it is reality. They may have all their fingers and toes, but something is missing on the inside. As this baby develops and becomes educated they will become aware that something is missing, something is wrong and no amount of success will squelch the yearning to be complete.
God calls out to them through different ways in order to satisfy their longing and if they respond to Him, by faith in His provision of new life found in Jesus, they will be born again, they will be connected to Creator God and their spirit will be made alive; they will be born again as a new babe in God's family. That's when hunger develops because this babe has need of nourishment in order to develop into manhood or womanhood.
This fact of life makes me wonder about people calling themselves Christian and not being hungry to read God's word which is the real food of a believer. Jesus called Himself the 'Bread of Life' and Jesus is God's word become flesh, but He is the written word, also. He breathed his thoughts into the men who wrote the Scriptures and they are very Him. My conclusion is this: If a person is not hungry for God's word on a regular basis, they just may not have the Spirit of God dwelling in them. They just may not be born again. They may still be in the death state, separated from God and facing the future eternity still without Him
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