Spiritual Hunger

Have you ever been hungry?

Yes?

What do you do to solve that problem?

The answer is simple.  In order to take care of hunger, you must eat.

Have you ever been spiritually hungry?  Spiritual hunger is easy to recognize if you know what to look for.  Have you ever been angry, sad, offended, critical, worried, doubtful, fearful, apathetic, mean, defensive, afraid, jealous, frustrated...to name a few?

How do you solve the problem of spiritual hunger?  You MUST feed yourself with spiritual food. If you use something else to satisfy the need, the problem deepens or increases.  Spiritual food is prayer, scripture study, gratitude, service, kindness, forgiveness, sacrifice, temple, family history or missionary work etc. If we keep our spirits fed well, the challenges of life are much easier to manage.

When we fast, we can just go without food or starve our way through it; or we can fast and pray with a purpose.  The two produce very different results.

This puts the concept of "hungering and thirsting after righteousness" into new light.  In this world our spirits WILL hunger.  But we can starve our spirits and experience life wanting and wishing for more and greater satisfaction, or we can use those opportunities of spiritual hunger to hunger and thirst after righteousness.