"Your not you when you are hungry" is one of the taglines for Snickers candy bars. I can remember they ran a host of commercial feature funny situations and memorable characters. In one commercial, there was Aretha Franklin in the back seat of a car. She was griping about it being hot, and there being no air flow. She was going on and on with moaning, so much so that one of the friends in the back seat offers him a Snickers bar.
His friend offers him a snickers and tells him that "you're not you when you are hungry." It is a great commercial and a classic tag line. It turns out to be oh so true, so very true. In fact, it seems truer than we even imagine.
I propose that you are not the "real" you when you are spiritually hungry either. When your soul is empty, running on empty, hungry or even the slightest bit under fed then you aren't you. Without God's Word inside, filling your heart, you cannot be the person you were born and created to be.
Like the Snickers commercial, when we are hungry we behave unseemly, against the truth, and often just plain bad. Only when we eat, drink, and nourish ourselves are we "better." We find ourselves, become our truest selves only when we are full of God's love, Word and Spirit. When we satisfy our deepest hunger, we will not just be "better," but we will become more like Christ. And that is our real self.
Remember that we aren't who we were made to be when we are hungry, so feed on God.
Next time you have, see or think about a Snickers bar remember to feed your soul too.
