When you suffer from hunger you take bread or other food, and your body in belief is built up according as you assimilate the food. Now do you say or think that the bread caused your suffering? When you suffer from thirst you go to the fountain to drink. Do you say the water caused or sent you the suffering? No; it relieves you, and it is really the want of food or water which caused the suffering of the mortal sense. So do our sufferings in this material world send us to God, the Fountain of Life, the Living Bread, for He only can satisfy us and heal us. We suffer from the want of Him, but He does not make us suffer, any more than the food and water send us the pangs of hunger and thirst. Every pain and sorrow comes from a belief in the absence of God (good), and did we but realize His ever-presence, these would all flee away and we would be "filled with all the fulness of God."
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
