Years ago my wife and I took our children to an amusement park in Texas. By day's end, Vicki and Torrey were tired and hungry.

As we were leaving, we passed a concession stand and Vicki asked for some cotton candy. I told her we would get some real food in a few minutes, but she wouldn't hear of it. So I decided to invest $1.50 to teach her a lesson.

Vicki got the cotton candy she begged for. But as she bit into it, she discovered there was nothing to it. Finally she handed it back to me and said, "Daddy, it's not real!" She knew she was hungry, and she learned that cotton candy promises something it can't deliver.

There is a deep hunger within all of us. Sigmund Freud believed people are hungry for love. Karl Jung insisted that we crave security. Alfred Adler maintained that significance is what we are after. But Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life" (Jn. 6:48). Jesus was saying that if we want the deepest hunger of our life satisfied, we need to go to Him to be filled. He knew that our hunger and thirst are really for Him.

Don't settle for spiritual cotton candy when Christ can fill the emptiness in your life.  — Haddon W. Robinson