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September 5 – He Was Hungry
“And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.” – Matthew 4:2
Jesus was taken in the power of the Holy Spirit into the wilderness so that He could be tempted by the devil. It is a strange episode in the Bible, but it is one where we see the human side of Jesus whose strength came by the use of the Word of God. Before He was to be tempted He fasted 40 days and 40 nights. Jesus took serious the mission that God had given Him and He did not go to scholars or to faith healers but to an isolated place to fast so that He might receive the power to endure the temptation. We all who are born again by the Spirit of the Living God know that Jesus was God in the flesh. He didn’t become God, but as the first chapter in the gospel of John declares, “He (Jesus, the Word of God) was God.” After Jesus finished His time of fasting He was hungry. To be hungry doesn’t seem all that profound of a concept. Nevertheless, God wanted us to know Jesus was hungry.
Have you ever served in a ministry, or finished praying to realize that you were really hungry? Did you let physical hunger keep you from starting or finishing God’s work? Jesus was hungry but He waited until He was finished with the work of God to eat. Our physical needs are always evident, but they should not be guide to how we serve Jesus Christ. As Jesus told Satan who told Jesus to use His power to change stones into bread, “man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” How many of us are spiritually starved and yet do nothing? We need God’s word more than food.
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