Hunger, Pt. 2- The Eliminator of Fear or Reason

As I continue on with my journey of learning how hunger can relate to my faithand my pursuit of Christ, I've been reading about how hunger has affected peoplein the Bible. In doing this, I notice one common denominator- hunger is an eliminator of fear or reason.

Hunger caused Esau to sell his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of soup (Gen 25). Without reason, Esau reduced his birth right- a promise to be prosperous, blessed with many children, and to bless nations- to nothing more than soup. Esau could have bought many bowls of soup and if he would have waited a little longer, I'm sure he would not have been skipped over at the dinner table.

Immense hunger caused a woman to propose a deal with her neighbor to boil and eat their sons (2Kings 6). This story causes my heart to weap with great sorrow. A child lost his life to the selfish nature of his hunger-driven mother.This poor child was reduced to a meal arrangement between two neighbors. Even worse, the mother did not weap for the loss of her son, she weaps because her neighbor wont give up her son to be eaten.

Four leprous men sat outside the city gates, filled with hunger. As they talked amongst themselves,they explored their options. They could stay outside the gates and die of hunger, they could enter the famine-filled city and die of hunger or risk their lives by going into the enemies' camp where there was plenty of food. With no fearof death, they chose the latter. In the end, they were victorious and took food back to the starving city and shared it with others (2Kings 7). These four men allowed hunger to eleminate their fear but not their ability to reason.

What will you allow your hunger to motivate you to do?