Luke 6:21 Blessed (happy—[h]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [i]to be envied) are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied! Blessed (happy—[j]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [k]to be envied) are you who weep and sob now, for you shall laugh!
24 But woe to (alas for) you who are rich ([n]abounding in material resources), for you already are receiving your consolation (the solace and sense of strengthening and cheer that come from prosperity) and have taken and enjoyed your comfort in full [having nothing left to be awarded you].
25 Woe to (alas for) you who are full now (completely filled, luxuriously gorged and satiated), for you shall hunger and suffer want! Woe to (alas for) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep and wail!
God has a reckless and contagious hunger. He longs to have our whole hearts in lovesick adoration, and surrender. He comes to us again and again revealing glimpses of His reckless love and hunger for us. From the Cross He declared it when he cried “I Thirst.” He is a jealous God. He is an all consuming fire. He is seeking true Worshippers who will love Him back with the same kind of reckless hunger that drove Him ‘Madly’ to the Cross. Matthew 25 says “…there was a shout, Behold, the Bridegroom! Come out to meet Him.” God is longing for those who have heard the shout of His hungry heart , to in response, rise up and meet Him with like hunger. In Phil.3:12 Paul said that he was in pursuit to apprehend that for which he had been apprehended. He had been apprehended to know Christ. Phil. 3:10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] He comes to us, revealing His heart for us, so that in apprehending us we will spend our lives apprehending His. If you sense the shout of His presence calling you to a new place in Him, then, leaving everything behind, go out and meet Him. To not rise up in pursuit is a response, but not the one He thirst’s for. He comes so close, but end the end you have to do your part to pursue, if you are going to truly apprehend, and complete His lovesick journey.