"Then Jesus declared, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.' "

-John 6:35

All growing up this was my favorite verse. I am always a sucker for a good phrase including food. Unfortunately, I was wrong in my idea of how exactly this verse was interpreted. You see for me, I really thought Jesus meant this literally. Yeah I knew the bread of life was the bible, but he promised we wouldn't be hungry again so naturally I wanted to take him up on that offer.

Haha, oh Hannah.

I was very disappointed after reading my bible one day and finding out an hour later I was hungry. I was confused on what exactly Jesus meant when he said we'd "never be hungry again."

Now I'm sure this wasn't a common confusion for those of you reading this. I just happened to be a little bit more naive than normal. Once I found out what this verse truly meant, things started to make a whole lot more sense.

"You'll never be hungry again." A lot of times we crave attention, we crave someone's time. Our boyfriends, our parents, our friends, we crave the attention we want or think we need. There are certain things we want to do, and places we want to be. We crave a certain stigma. While that is all fun, submerging ourselves in the word takes away some of the "bad cravings" we have in our life. For me? It was always being apart of the scene, wanting to do everything you were "supposed" to do in college. Get black out drunk, wake up the next morning not sure where you are, you know, the exciting stuff right?

However for me, it wasn't always something that sounded fun, it was more of something I felt like I was supposed to want to do. It wasn't until I got clarity on this verse that I understood why I didn't crave parties, I didn't want to be there every night and I didn't want other things that most college kids wanted.

I wanted Jesus.

I quit making my own decisions a while back, yes I know, it was very hard. After a while my heart and my head couldn't take me making up my mind for us, so I think they collectively impeached me as ruler over my body. After that, I decided the only person who cared more about me than me, was probably Jesus. So we all took a vote (my heart, my mind and my body) and we decided it was best for all of us that Jesus take over. (Insert excerpt of Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take The Wheel melody.)

Ever since then it's been completely different.

I don't crave the things I think I need, I crave things you're supposed to want when you're "much older." Time with Jesus, and wisdom from Him.

He's given me a gift, I am hungry for him. But my other cravings and hunger pains have gone away for the "typical college girl." Surprisingly though, I am still always very very physically hungry (I'm still working that kink out. We can't always get what we want.)

When we decide that we're not the best ruler over our hearts, and we allow someone else to carry the weight, the hunger for things of this world really do fall away. Im not going to sit here and tell you I am "world's most perfect Christian." Because I am most definitely not.

We all mess up, we all make mistakes and we all have issues we deal with. However deciding to give up some of our cravings that are only making us fat, now that's something I can deal with.

This also comes to show that you can link anything to Jesus...or food!