To Get Hungry

God made us to get hungry.

C.S. Lewis famously pointed out that "A man’s physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man’s hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist."

God made hunger because there was food, and thirst because there was drink, and longing for Him because there is life.

But I think God could have made us to just eat regularly enough that we never feel hunger.  It seems like He didn't.  On purpose.  And more profoundly, He didn't make the world so that peace and justice and kindness persist without interruption.  He allows us to notice our need.

Then we cry out for Him.  Then we hope for the good thing we lack.  Then we wait.

He made the hunger because there is a satisfaction - and because the hunger points us to our dependence on Him.  I think God wants us to know Him as the giver of good gifts, the provider of our needs.