Most of you reading this have never been hungry. We're just like the ad of some years ago that irritated the heck out of me; an ad that showed well-dressed and well-fed young men talking about hunger and how whenever they felt hungry they opened their desk drawer and pulled out a candy bar and that candy bar took away their hunger. If only it were so simple for those truly hungry. There is a hunger problem in our country and in all the countries of the world. We will not discuss or argue that point, for what we are discovering about ourselves during this Lenten Journey is our spiritual hunger. It hurts as deeply as physical hunger as those of you who have truly fasted during this time have discovered. In my e-devotional I have spent yesterday and today talking about thirst. What we know about physical thirst is that the human body can last three days without water. The human body can endure about 40 days without food before serious damages begin to occur within that could lead to death if food is not introduced.
Our spirit hungers for the knowledge and love of God. We can try and feed our spirits with things that seem to satisfy only to discover that we are still hungry. Jesus came and offered Himself as the Bread of Life in the same way that in John 4 He spoke to the woman at the well as being "the living waters" that will eternally satisfy our thirst. In Jesus we can feast on the living bread that takes our hunger away as well. Jesus brings satisfaction to our empty spirits, and we will never hunger again. And as we can read in John 6:22 and forward, if we believe in Him, our hunger gets taken away.
Journey towards the Bread of Life. Eat to your fill. Never hunger again.
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