The Appetite Of The Soul
Have you ever heard someone say, “I am so hungry I could eat a horse?” We are very familiar with expressions describing physical hunger, which becomes very real through the sensations we feel in our flesh.
Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not satisfied.
What about soul hunger?
When we are born again, our spirits are satisfied because we are filled with Christ in a new nature. He satisfies everything in the spirit. He can also satisfy the soul; however, that requires us to let Him do so.
Psalm 107 says something interesting.
Psalm 107:8 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! 9 For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
God our Father wants to fill our souls with goodness! By faith, we need to prophetically thank Him for this even when things aren’t going as we would hope in situations of life.
When things are not as we would hope, our souls usually become hungry for goodness, for answers and solutions to problems and the emotional pain they can cause.
We find nourishment for our souls by giving thanks to God for His wonderful works and recounting His faithfulness throughout our journey with Him. In times when the enemy wishes to challenge the faithfulness of God or the reliability of His promises, it can be to our advantage to tell our souls of His wonderful works not just to us but to others we love and have rejoiced to see Him at work in.
The enemy wishes to starve our souls by means of distraction. The Apostle Peter pointed this out,
1Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you, as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
When we get distracted by the things of this world, our souls starve for good things. The things of this world are like trying to survive on marshmallows. It’s nothing but fluff! It can momentarily satisfy, but it cannot touch the deep longings.
It is as the Psalmist says,
Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Letting the faith we possess in our spirit invade our soul by speaking according to what we believe leads to giving thanks to God for what is yet unseen but promised. This leads to the soul being filled with His goodness! Soul appetite isn’t evil, just as being physically hungry isn’t evil. It is meant to be filled with His goodness. Remember Philippians 4 “Think on these things!”
