Comments on: What Do We Really Crave? http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/ Attempting to connect life to what matters most Tue, 22 May 2012 03:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mike Zook: on foot http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4038 Mike Zook: on foot Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:29 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4038 <strong>A Cause, Sacrifice, a Comedian, Cravings and a Jack Black video...</strong> Here are a few thoughts by others that I have been reading this week. I hope you find them as encouraging and thought provoking as I have....Enjoy! Erwin McManus: The Cause-Driven Church Chris Tomlinson: Extolling the Virtues of Sacrifice Torry... A Cause, Sacrifice, a Comedian, Cravings and a Jack Black video…

Here are a few thoughts by others that I have been reading this week. I hope you find them as encouraging and thought provoking as I have….Enjoy! Erwin McManus: The Cause-Driven Church Chris Tomlinson: Extolling the Virtues of Sacrifice Torry…

]]> By: Jim Martin http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4037 Jim Martin Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:01:36 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4037 Bobby,Thanks for the affirmation and encouragement.  For a lot of reasons, it can be very difficult to live in authenticity and transparency.I am a work in progress on this Bobby.  I see some progress but also see some need for movement as well.Hope your move has gone well.  Bobby,Thanks for the affirmation and encouragement.  For a lot of reasons, it can be very difficult to live in authenticity and transparency.I am a work in progress on this Bobby.  I see some progress but also see some need for movement as well.Hope your move has gone well. 

]]> By: Jim Martin http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4036 Jim Martin Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:56:11 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4036 Danny,I like the way you put this---what I really crave and what I fill myself up with are really two different things. Danny,I like the way you put this—what I really crave and what I fill myself up with are really two different things.

]]> By: Jim Martin http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4035 Jim Martin Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:54:48 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4035 Ben, A very good comment.  I'm with you in that I too am very much a "work in progress."  Ben, A very good comment.  I’m with you in that I too am very much a "work in progress." 

]]> By: Centering the Clay » Start now… http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4034 Centering the Clay » Start now… Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:25:33 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4034 [...] in my daily blog readings I came across Jim Martin’s post titled “What do we crave”.  In his post he writes In his book Soulshaping, Douglas Rumford captures the essence of our [...] [...] in my daily blog readings I came across Jim Martin’s post titled “What do we crave”.  In his post he writes In his book Soulshaping, Douglas Rumford captures the essence of our [...]

]]> By: Bobby Valentine http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4033 Bobby Valentine Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:22:59 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4033 Jim I appreciate how you are leading by example even now.  Some times it is very hard to be authentic and transparent.  We feel "out of character" in doing so.  "We" are supposed to have it all together ... men of the cloth you know!  The images that many have of ministers perhaps fosters that reticence too.  I have not arrived but I know I need to be ... Thank you. Shalom,Bobby Valentine  Jim I appreciate how you are leading by example even now.  Some times it is very hard to be authentic and transparent.  We feel "out of character" in doing so.  "We" are supposed to have it all together … men of the cloth you know!  The images that many have of ministers perhaps fosters that reticence too.  I have not arrived but I know I need to be … Thank you. Shalom,Bobby Valentine 

]]> By: danny http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4032 danny Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:23:00 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4032 I don't like aritificial sweetners either Ben, but I do relate to Jim's post. What I have discoverd is that what I really crave and what I generally fill myself up with in day-today church work is two different things.   I don’t like aritificial sweetners either Ben, but I do relate to Jim’s post.
What I have discoverd is that what I really crave and what I generally fill myself up with in day-today church work is two different things.
 

]]> By: ben overby http://godhungry.org/2007/03/29/no-substitutes-please/comment-page-1/#comment-4031 ben overby Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:55:56 +0000 http://godhungry.org/?p=657#comment-4031 Authenticity follows satisfaction.  When we're satisfied in Christ, filled with all the fulness God wants to pour into us, then the fears which act as thread for our many disguises come unraveled.   If our craving is for busyness in order to be seen, position in order to be honored,  or relationships in order to be popular, then we need some self-diagnosis.  Our misplaced cravings are indicators that we're not completely satisfied with God.  Our adulterous hunger for something other than God will display itself in our own depression, frustration, anger, poor use of words, and constant worry.  The only cure is to seek more of God, and we're in pretty good company if we pursue Him in periods of prayer and fasting.  Fasting "can" create craving for God, and in prayer we implore the Spirit to fill us up.  Lest I give the impression that I've mastered any of this, I haven't.  I'm a work in progress, but more and more hungry for God and less and less satisfied with anything that pretends to be godly but isn't.   I don't like artificial sweetners.  Authenticity follows satisfaction.  When we’re satisfied in Christ, filled with all the fulness God wants to pour into us, then the fears which act as thread for our many disguises come unraveled.   If our craving is for busyness in order to be seen, position in order to be honored,  or relationships in order to be popular, then we need some self-diagnosis.  Our misplaced cravings are indicators that we’re not completely satisfied with God.  Our adulterous hunger for something other than God will display itself in our own depression, frustration, anger, poor use of words, and constant worry.  The only cure is to seek more of God, and we’re in pretty good company if we pursue Him in periods of prayer and fasting.  Fasting "can" create craving for God, and in prayer we implore the Spirit to fill us up. 
Lest I give the impression that I’ve mastered any of this, I haven’t.  I’m a work in progress, but more and more hungry for God and less and less satisfied with anything that pretends to be godly but isn’t.   I don’t like artificial sweetners. 

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