Week 29: HUNGER

Why do I crave adventure?  It’s like every part of me amps up when I think of a new challenge: climbing a rugged rock face, jumping off a rock into a mountain creek, rafting down a class 5 rapid, speeding along off road on a 4x4... the list goes on and on. And though it excites me and arouses something in me, I can never get enough. 

What then was I created for?  Why do I hunger?  C.S. Lewis brilliantly explores this in Mere Christianity:

The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.

I was made for another world. Another country. Oh, I am grateful for this one. I won’t stop seeking adventure. But I won’t look at it to fill me. For that, I look to my creator, the one who put that desire in me in the first place.

My prayer for you is that you can find what your soul longs for only in Christ!  I would love to introduce Him to you if you don’t personally know Him :)

Have a blessed week.