Food!

I skipped dinner last night and woke up so hungry. I literally blessed my breakfast this morning thanking God for the food that would make the pain in my stomach go away. Then I got in the car with the radio on and headed to my favorite little town and calculated if I would be there over lunch so I could get a delicious greasy cheeseburger and coke at my favorite little restaurant for $3. Mmmm...
So on the Christian radio station, life88.3, the radio dj was talking about breakfast and couldn't remember if he had eaten yet this morning. The other dj said she definitely noticed he did eat because she forgot breakfast that morning and was hungry, so the memory stood out to her.

Hearing him say he could not even remember if he had eaten that day, something about that statement just stuck out to me. I thought woah, we are that careless about food. It's just something we do. Eat. And there are so many people all over the world starving, who can't think of anything else but how much they would just like a little something to satiate the piercing, nagging hunger that never leaves their tired bodies. And then I remembered how I was glad to get rid of those little pangs of hunger in my stomach this morning.

For those people I want to fast and pray tomorrow. I'm going to skip breakfast and lunch to pray for these people, and to focus my mind on God in place of idly thinking about food.
Anybody else feel led to do it with me?

Luke 4:4
But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

Isaiah 26:3
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.