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ARE YOU SPIRITUALLY STARVING?
Revelation 3:17 states: "Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked."
Perhaps one of the saddest states we can find ourselves in is when we should be hungry but we are not. When one fasts for any prolonged length of time the body's natural hunger for food begins to wane after about the third or fourth day. After awhile, all hunger and carving for food leaves. The body begins to feed on itself and eventually will die if not provided nutrients through food.
Spiritually speaking, the same principle applies. Much of the church is on a starvation diet. We provide at least three meals a day for our bodies while we starve the spiritual man with one meal per week. Many times, even the Sunday sermon may not be all that nutritious. Some do not even care that much about the one meal per week provided by the pastor who may himself be on a spiritual starvation diet.
What a sad state when there are Bibles everywhere and yet most people are spiritually starving themselves, and yet not even aware what is happening to their inner man.
While visiting Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland recently we saw many photographs of pitiful, frail, starving Jews who were only skin and bones. Millions of Jews were worked and starved to death in only two months after arrival at this camp (and there were many other extermination camps just like Auschwitz). These six million plus people were forced to labor with beatings and starvation.
The truth is that we are not being forced to spiritually starve and yet we are starving and do not know it. Like those who fast, we have passed the point of hunger and we are on the brink of spiritual death. We desperately need revival to arrest this great problem.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
