Hunger.... What do you hunger for? --- Jesus Christ

Hello all!!!

I have not really had the most exciting and adventurous past few days. I worked on the campus here at B2B on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday was staff development day and intern day out which was fun. Saturday was more work on campus and a pool party on campus for two of the children's homes we serve where I diligently stood above a grill and cooked 432 hamburgers with my intern friend Reed. It was just the routine. Did not really get a chance to hang out with a whole lot of kids. These past few days it was extremely challenging for me to keep a good attitude on my shoulders. However, with all that to say, I still experienced God this week.

The theme this year for Back2Back is hunger. I definitely came here hungry. I was hungry for a great summer. I was hungry for lots of Taco Fedeys. I was hungry for Vita's cooking. I was hungry for a good time with some cool kids. I was hungry for relationships. I was hungry for Mexico. I was hungry for the next fall. However, while some of these are righteous things, none of them where what I am supposed to be hungering after. The theme for Back2Back this summer does not have to do with hungering after our finite desires and wishes. What then shall we hunger after?

Hunger for.....

³² Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven. ³³ The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day.”
³⁵ Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ³⁶ But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me. ³⁷ However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will. ³⁹ And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”John 6:32-40 (NLT)

So as I came here this past week, I experienced a not so immediate wake up call. I slowly realized that I am not hungering after the right things in life. I continued to hunger after other things more then Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus should be the very center of my every will and desire, but He was not. One's hunger for Christ should a exponentially increasing desire, but mine was not. Well its another part of the journey of my faith.

On top of all that, one of the devotionals this week talked about the importance of focusing on and hungering after Christ in our struggle against sin. So often we put more attention onto stopping the sin instead of focusing on Christ which remains pointless because we are powerless to have victory over it. We must focus on Christ. In order to have true victory over our sins we must have Christ. I have experienced this true victory. Through prayer my chains have been broken, and by faith I focus on Christ with a exponentially increasing desire as I follow the path He has for me walking away from my sinful past. By the grace of God, this is the life I have chosen. This is what I hunger for, never looking back.

Do you HUNGER FOR THE ONE WHO GIVE LIFE!?

As the weeks go by, I will need more prayers then ever.

Please pray for the following...

--energy

--growth in my Spanish... for God's supernatural power to come through and help me with my Spanish

--Peace among all interns and staff

--Growth together for the interns

--Opportunities to show the love of Christ to the children.

--the abandoned children of Monterrey, Mexico

Dios Te Bandiga!

Andrew Ryan Dixon