Are We Hungry Today

I have been reading a book called “Love Hunger”. It is about people who have food addictions. Well, it could really be any type of addiction. In our techno, broadcasted, information overloaded culture why not? What I found interesting in the book was the authors’ discussion of the six-step downward spiral of an addiction: The first step is called “Love Hunger”. Interestingly, it is the trigger mechanism that sets off the addiction–cycle like the first domino in a circle of dominos. The authors say that one hits another and then another until the entire circle of dominoes has collapsed. The difference is that in the domino example once they all fall the cycle is over. However, in the real world, the stages continue to go around and around deeper into the addiction.

What causes this first step in the process you might ask? The very first domino to fall is our hunger for love. Whether it be from trauma in early childhood, a disastrous love interest, a severe disappointment, a trauma at work or a disfiguring disease, they all serve to start our hunger for love.

For Christians, if we only know one thing, we must know internally that we are loved by our creator. As the Psalmist says in Psalm 139:14: we are “fearfully and wonderfully made”. A human being is an incredible thing: complex and intricate to have come into being without the guiding hand of a Creator.

We have been made in the image of God. At some point in our lives, we must internalize that love.. It is the key to the salvation of our spirits. Our lives are all about love. Love of God and love of one another. No matter how you got to the place where you are today, remember that God truly loves you. If you don’t believe that statement, why, ask another Christian. They most certainly will affirm God’s love for you. For no matter what we have done in the past or will do in the future, we have been restored to the image of our creator. The next time you are feeling the pressures of this world, or the past life you have lived or the worry of your future repeat John 3:16 only substitute, your name in the blanks.

John 3:16

¹⁶"For God so loved ___________that he gave his one and only Son,^[a] that _________believes in him ____________shall not perish but have eternal life.