How's your appetite?
You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat. (Matthew 5:6) If hunger is one of your character traits, humility will follow, honor will be your adornment, honesty will be your way of doing business, hopefulness will spring from your heart, and holiness will be evident in your words and actions. Hunger really is an all-encompassing thing we cannot live without! We find Jesus climbing a small mountain or up onto a hillside. The crowds were gathering, and this gave him a position to speak to the vast crowd. He did not climb alone - those who were "apprenticed" to him, the committed, climbed with him. In other words, those who were in service with him. These were his disciples - those who would be in for the long haul. Then Jesus assumed a new "posture" as he began to teach - he sat down. This suggests a place of comfort and a time of personal sharing. As he began to teach, it wasn't the cr