Starvation poses a serious threat to our health for many.
It can occur whenever the nutrient intake does not meet the necessary requirements to help support good health. An imbalance is present.
Starvation develops gradually, not suddenly. The body draws on stored nutrients to function briefly, but these reserves eventually run out.
Which means someone could be starving without showing signs.
Eventually, the body can no longer compensate for nutrient deficiencies, and the lack of essential nutrients impairs performance and health.
When this point is reached, the devastation compounds.
The hunger disease expands and evolves into Malnutrition.
The ability to escape from this serious health condition depends upon some key factors; the extent of time you go without vital nutrients, the range of nutrients that are lacking, and the individuals mindset.
Oftentimes starvation has been found to be generational.
Malnutrition can lead to cancer, heart issues, diabetes, and obesity.
Starvation is not limited to the body; it can also be felt in the soul.
Have you ever felt full on the outside but empty on the inside?
You may need to attend to the part of your life that has been quietly going along without nourishment: your soul.
A starved soul describes a state of deep inner depletion and devastation, that is revealed in spiritual dryness, apathy, and emotional fatigue.
Contrary to what some believe, it cannot be cured by physical rest, elaborate vacations, overindulgence, material success, or distractions.
You can have a full schedule and still feel empty within your soul.
The core issue is not physical activity, but rather spiritual hunger. Your core needs for purpose and spiritual connection are running on fumes.
Work, entertainment, and achievement may occupy your days, and still leave you lonely at night. Something is still missing.
This disease is the result of a fever for real truth, authenticity, purpose and connection to something greater and more honorable than humans.
In simple terms it is a hunger for God! Not more stuff!
It is not about religion, but relationship.
We need a relationship with people and with God.
When Adam had only God, God said he was lacking something. When he had a person, but not God, he was still lacking.
We need both people and God before we can feel complete and whole.
We were created from the inside out; 1st spirit, 2nd soul, and then body.
God blew his breath and then man became a living spirit with a soul/conscious that was housed in a body.
Our inner life is starving without the nourishment it was designed to have.
When those nutrients aren’t supplied, we feel great sadness, numbness, anger, and chronic exhaustion that no amount of rest/relaxation can cure.
We get overweighted by trying to navigate through life by ourselves.
A starved soul tries to fill itself with overconsumption, endless scrolling, overwork, compulsive habits and all types of decadence, which only makes you hungrier.
A once starving nation offered this advice “Let us examine and test our ways and turn back to the LORD” Lamentations 3:40.
This was the lesson learned from the Hebrew people while in exile.
Here are 4 common symptoms to help you know if your Soul is Starving.
1. Exhaustion and Numbness – Feeling a disconnect from passion and things that bring you joy. Nothing excites you.
2. Continual dissatisfaction – Always needing more external validation, entertainment, or material achievements to quiet the voices of your internal emptiness.
3. Procrastination – Delaying projects, ignoring deadlines, putting off tasks.
4. Defensive and Suspicious – Starvation can make you emotional and irrational. Kindness gets responded to with Coldness.
Persistent fatigue, loss of interest and irritability lead to depression.
In the same way that one meal cannot sustain us, neither can last weeks, last months, or last year’s encounter with God hold us indefinitely.
Here are a few suggestions on how to get Re-nourished.
1. Re-connect – Begin adding in daily supplements of reading things that reference God and His promises.
2. Re-evaluate your priorities. Eliminate things that weigh you down.
3. Re-organize your day. Put God First and Last!
4. Re-establish a community of faith. We are a body of believers.
Spiritual nourishment requires a living relationship not a remembered experience.
Ask God to show you what nutrition your soul needs and where to get it?
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