New Year's resolutions continue to be mentioned even though it's nearly the middle of January. Many of those resolutions will focus on health and diets. Many of us strive to look better, get fitter, lose weight and so on. The new year brings a new determination (or does it?) to curb our appetite for food and all things unhealthy.
But what of our appetite for God? That isn't something we want to suppress, many of us need to re-awaken our appetite for him.
Our appetites dictate the direction of our lives - whether it be the cravings of our stomachs, the passionate desire for possessions or power, or the longings of our spirits for God. But for the Christian, the hunger for anything besides God can be an arch-enemy. While our hunger for God - and him alone - is the only thing that will bring victory.
Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is a path of pleasant pain called fasting. It is the path John Piper invites you to travel in his ebook, A Hunger For God. For when God is the supreme hunger of your heart, he will be supreme in everything.
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Dean is the Sales Manager at The Good Book Company. He engages with churches, organisations and individuals to provide them with useful resources for their varying ministries. Dean attends St John's Church in Woking, where he lives with his family.