Hunger Pains...?

This post is for all my single ladies out there. First of all, HANG IN THERE! I'm right there with you.


A friend of mine once told me, in response to my complaints and confessions about being hungry "all the time," that often times when our minds tell us that we want food, they are deceiving us. The mind often misinterprets the body when it cries in need of something. For example, the body says, "Ooo. Eat that orange. I am lacking in vitamin C and would feel so much better if that need was filled." Hearing this signal, the mind says, "Oh you want that triple-layer-German-chocolate-chip-chunk-frosted cake over there. Okay! Go ahead! Enjoy!"


My friend continued to say that often times we think we are having hunger pains when really the body is screaming for one vital thing...WATER! We can go for weeks without food, ladies, but we can only live three days without water. In fact, we practically are water. Seventy percent of the body is WATER.


All this is to say, my friends, that sometimes when our thoughts seem to be screaming for the affections and companionship of Mr. Right, our heart may really be craving something or SOMEONE else. While the desires for a husband are God-given and wonderful, our souls often become fat with them when we indulge them to unhealthy, ungodly levels! I believe that I am often greatly mistaken in understanding the cry of my heart. I think it is expressing my appetite for a man, when it is really crying for the Living Water. My heart was made for Jesus Christ. In fact, I was made in His image...and when I neglect drinking my fill of His presence, that image becomes weak, just as my body does when I'm dehydrated.


So girls, life without water is impossible. Life without the Living Water is impossible. Next time you think you want that tall, dark, and handsome piece of chocolate cake and you just can't stop thinking about it, ask yourself, "Have I drunk long from the stream of Living Water today or is my soul pleading because it is so dry? Am I only feeding the desires of the flesh when my spirit longs for refreshment?"


You are not alone and this is a battle. Chocolate cake is every woman's friend, but water is her life and savior.  There is a time and a place for cake, but water is always a necessity. As you walk along the path on this journey, don't forget to drink.


"For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth." Isaiah 54:5


"The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." John 4:9-10