Are You Hungry?

The word of God is our life source. Jesus told his disciples that he had food which they did not know of. His meat was to do the will of His father. We must stay nourished by the word of God. But the question for us today is, How satisfied are you with your Christian service? Do you find fulfillment and satisfaction in your Christian service? Or are we satisfied with this world and the things of it? Do we have a hunger for more of God’s love and presence in our lives? Do you earnestly desire the things of God?

Listen to this quote by famed author CS Lewis, “If we find in ourselves desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only possible conclusion is that we were made for another world.” If we truly took that saying to heart it would greatly shape our daily actions and our faith. Take for example the story of a faithful man by the name of John Huss.

Huss was born to peasant parents in "Goosetown," that is, Husinec, in the south of today's Czech Republic. (In his twenties, he shortened his name to Huss—"goose," and he and his friends delighted in making puns on his name; it was a tradition that continued. Luther reminded the people of Huss he wrote the goose was cooked for defying the pope.

To escape poverty, Huss trained for the priesthood: "I had thought to become a priest quickly in order to secure a good livelihood and dress and to be held in esteem by men." He earned a bachelor's, master’s, and then finally a doctorate. Along the way he was ordained (in 1401) and became the preacher at Prague's Bethlehem Chapel (which held 3,000), the most popular church in one of the largest of Europe's cities, a center of reform in Bohemia He then immediately broke with tradition he began to speak in the people's language not in Latin. WHICH IS HELPFUL?

John Huss explained the bible desiring to teach everything in the bible as long as he had breath. He was then excommunicated. And he kept on preaching. The Roman Catholic (it's hard to say Church) attempted to scare people from not listing to him. They could not stop it. He leaned more on the bible then before he wrote.

  

John Huss loved God so much that he was dedicated to the teachings of the bible. History records, while he was being burnt at the stake he died singing the psalms. He was a man who lived nourished by the word of God.

The only crime he committed was reliance on the word of God. He was accused of teaching “heretical doctrines” such as: 

1. The Church is made up of all believers

If you’re a believer than YOU ARE part of the Church.

The Roman---- Teaches that the priests, cardinals and bishops made up the Church and the pope

2. The authority of the bible is higher than that of the church

3. The Pope is not the head of the Church Jesus is he went farther than that Christ alone is the heed of the church and not the pope who through ignorance and the love of money is corrupt.

CHRIST IS THE HEAD if you don't believe this might as will check out now. One of Huss's last statements was you may kill this goose but one day a swan will come. Huss valued the words of God more than his own life. How much value do we place on the Word of God? Have we heeded the words of Christ to abide daily in His words? Have we as Paul Told timothy been constantly nourished on the words of faith and sound doctrine? Are we absorbed in the teachings and instructions of our spiritual leaders? Jesus said blessed are those who HUNGER and THIRST after righteousness for they shall be filled.

Are we hungry for the things of God? Are we Thirsty for the living water He offers? How desperate are we for more of His spirit in our lives.