A Journey of Hunger, Love, and Calling

This is Jesus’s promise: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (Matthew 5:6)

God often meets us in unexpected ways and places. When the Spirit moves, a holy hunger awakens. We find ourselves hungry for God. Not theology. Not religion. Just God.

This hunger is a gift, and God is with us in it.

Theologian Mildred Wynkoop once wrote: “The coming of the Holy Spirit means the awakening of the total reserve of human nature. It is a honing of the sharp edges of human energies and capacities in order to fulfill one’s God-appointed mission in life.”

When that hunger is noticed — the restlessness, the longing, the ache for more — it becomes an altar. This is where the old walls crumble and resentments give way. Love rushes in. Love that was once impossible now finds room to grow.

God’s Spirit awakens us to start to see the world differently and begin to be willing to follow the Spirit into new territory— being with people in a new way, seeing and loving people how God does.

The Spirit awakens our soul, our hunger for God, sharpens our rough edges, and reveals a deeper purpose.

God chooses to change the world through the work of the Holy Spirit in us. This is the Spirit’s work: overcoming evil with good, healing ancient wounds, awakening courage to stand against darkness in everyday places. The total human reserve — every hidden capacity — sharpened and set apart for a holy calling.

No one is disqualified. Not the weary, not the once-wounded, not the overlooked. Every heart still beating is a heart God can fill and send. There is always more love to give, more hope to carry. Each of us is meant to confront and overcome evil right where we are.

“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you…” (Acts 1:8) God’s Spirit dwelling within us gives us the power to become new, and to join God in making all things new.

Sometimes what we have in our hands seems small — a word, a prayer, a skill, an open door. Yet the Spirit can multiply the little beyond our wildest imagination. One heart yielded, one hunger stirred, one life saying “Yes, Lord” — and a world is changed.

So may hunger rise again — not for easy answers, but for the heart of God. May restless spirits become open places where the Spirit moves freely. May each life be a living testimony that God is still at work, still filling empty hands, still awakening people to their God-given mission.