Are You Hangry?

                                        Are You Hangry?  

Missy was talking about being hungry and how when she gets really hungry it turns into being Hangry.  It’s getting so hungry that it effects your emotions and you get angry.  I found it a funny word but I could also relate.  I am sure many of us can.  I know there are times during the day at work I can get so hungry I go to the vending machine and just impulse buy.  I don’t really consider what it is only that it is a quick fix to how I feel.  Now we were just talking about food and our stomachs but what if we widened the thought a little.  How many of us get hangry for other things like love and attention from our spouse?  We need the connection and we get hungry for it but what happens when we get Hangry for it?  There really isn’t a vending machine for in impulse buy, which buy the way isn’t good for us anyway but do we try to fill that void up with other relationships.  Don’t get me wrong some relationships can be positive and those are ones that continue to point us back to Christ but when we are hangry it is usually an impulse connection.  One made of convenience.   What about feeding out spiritual self?  How many times do we get so hangry that we grab any quick fix we can to fill that void no matter how temporary.  I was reading about Esau and Jacob and how Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup.  He was in a weak moment because he was Hangry, He was willing to compromise because he was hangry, he even whined because he was hangry.   We need to make sure we don’t get hungry.  We need to make sure we aren’t starving our selves physically or spiritually.  When we are starving we make weak, compromised, and emotional choices.  Almost anything looks good smells good and tastes good when your hangry but step back clear your head for a minute and ask yourself “If I wasn’t Hangry would this really be ok for me?”  “Am I compromising?”  Where we live right now there is no excuse for being spiritually hungry.  There is music, Bibles, and audio sermons right at our finger tips and for smart phone users in our pockets.  We are always just a prayer away from Christ who promises to show Himself to those that are looking for Him.  

Thanks and enjoy a good meal today.