When some people miss a meal they don’t get hungry, they get hangry! Hangry is the state many people find themselves in when their blood sugar falls, they feel panicky, and their stomachs aren’t the only thing that’s growling. Anyone who’s ever taken care of a baby knows about the unpleasantness of trying to comfort a hungry infant with anything other than what they want:  milk!

It’s interesting that the Bible uses the pictures of food and hunger to describe our spiritual lives. It says, “like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation” (1 Peter 2:2 NASB). Just as there’s no substitute for milk for a baby, there’s no substitute for scripture, God’s Word, the Bible, when it comes to us growing in health spiritually.