Uncontrollable Hunger - Thanksgiving Devotional #3

This devotional was written by my sweet friend, Naticia De Hoyos.
Reprinted here with her permission.

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A satisfied appetite refuses honey, but to a hungry appetite, everything bitter tastes sweet.
Proverbs 27: 7 7

This verse can be translated in many ways, However, in many places in the Bible, honey is representative of God's blessing and the richness of God. In a spiritual interpretation of this verse, if someone is so filled with the world, they will refuse God's goodness. Then I thought, the one that hungers would gravitate to God's goodness but that word 'everything' kept bothering me. The part of that verse says "but to a hungry appetite everything bitter tastes sweet."

Isaiah 5: 20 reads, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."

These appear to be two spiritual dangers: someone is who is so satisfied with the world they have no need for the riches of God. And someone so hungry for something, anything, that everything that appears to look good. They'll take in and believe and convince themselves that even though it's poison and bitter it's really sweet. 

Where do I start? I see myself a lot with the guy with the hungry appetite. There was a time when I was starving for affection, validation, purpose, the need to belong, to be loved that I latched on to everything and everyone. I stayed in a physically abusive relationship for two years telling myself he loved me. I latched on to different belief systems designed to put me first above everyone else - to give me purpose. I latched on to really bad people, called them my friends, and did horrible things with them so they would validate me and tell me how great I was. 

I was so uncontrollably hungry for all these things, I called everything that was bad, good because bad was so easily attainable. I was surrounded by a buffet of bitter fruit that I convinced myself was sweet. Forgive me

Prayer:

Father God,
                  There is nothing better tasting in this world than the richness of Your blessings. I never want to tire of Your goodness. I don't want to get bored of the sweetness of Your Word. Father, make me hungry for Your Word every day! Make me hunger always for Your richness and presence in my life. I never want to be so satisfied that I refuse You. Put a hunger in me that drives me to seek only You and feast on Your Word daily.  Amen