Micah 6:12-16. God cries out to his city "your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies." Therefore he has begun to smite them, they will become desolate because of their sins. They shall eat but not be satisfied "and there shall be a hunger in your inward parts." They shall put away but not save, tread olives and grapes but have no oil or wine. Because they have walked in the ways of Ahab and Omri they shall be a desolation.

I have had this reading before as well, I seem to be getting a lot of repeats lately - God must be trying to tell me something! Today I am struck by the line " there shall be a hunger in your inward parts." Isn't that so true?! When we turn away from God and we try to fill the yearning with other things, we feel so empty - we cannot get enough of whatever we're trying because nothing else can fill the emptiness but God. But even more than that, we have a hunger in our inward parts - in parts that we don't even know we have or what they are hungry for. God is so good to give us this, because otherwise we would never turn back to him.

Before we do turn back to him, though, we cause ourselves so much pain and anxiety. We are so fickle and ridiculous, and we are so blessed that God continues to love us so much that he gives us the emptiness to feel so that we can turn back to him to fill it.