“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5: 6). Hangry is defined as being bad-tempered or irritable as a result of being hungry. Hangry people have little patience and often act in a manner that goes against their best interest. We are not always quite in tune with the needs of our Spirit as much as we are with our bodies, but we are in just as much danger of becoming spiritually hangry as we are of becoming physically hangry. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” (Galatians 5: 22-23). A lot of these fruits of the spirit are just the natural results of our spirits being filled and thus no longer hangry. Many of us can go months or years at a time without taking any thought to try and fill our Spirits. Imagine how hungry and angry and bad-tempered our spirits must be! I know that a lot of the sins that easily beset us, the temptations that we seem to have no willpower to resist, the littlest things that set us off - all of this would be so much easier to manage and deal with if we took the time to feed our Spirits. When we truly recognize that our souls hunger and thirst for righteousness, then we will feast upon the words of Christ that our spirits may be filled. And once we are no longer spiritually hungry or hangry, we will notice how much easier it is to feel love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness and all of the other fruits of the Spirit.
