Hungry

 The cries of a baby says she is hungry.  The gurgling of a stomach indicates hunger.  The faces of people in Texas last week showed hunger and thirst.  We cannot live without food and water.  It is a primary need.  So eat and drink, we must.  

But I ponder, where is the life-fulfilling food we require?

I wonder, am I eating sustaining bread? What bread are you eating?  Who are you trusting to turn the stones in your life into fulfilling bread.  Bread that gives life.  Bread that re-creates life.

Could it be that we eat to try and fill a different type of hunger?  We eat material goods to quench our hunger for acceptance.  We eat busy lives to fulfill our need for recognition.  We eat social media to watch and compare us with them.  We eat news to complain and demand instead of serve, solve and pray.

How hungry are you for new life?  Do you recognize your own hunger?

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Matthew 4:2