“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6
Everyday people get hungry for food or thirsty for water. Most people are able to get something to eat and drink to satisfy them. The desire for food and water is a natural part of the human body. It is the way God created people.
Food brings the necessary nutrition that the body needs to survive and grow. Water brings about the needed cleansing to clean out impurities from the body.
Jesus now speaks of a different type of hunger and thirst. It is one for righteousness. Righteousness is being and doing the right things in the eyes of God.
Many people in the world understand the need for righteous or right living. Everywhere you go you will see religions with many rules on how to live right. People go through many different types of rituals to be right before God. Often they are trying to earn the right to get into heaven.
God stated that our righteousness is garbage. It is worthless.
There is only one way to be righteous, that is in Jesus Christ. You must cloth yourself with the righteousness of Jesus.
Hungering for righteousness is hunger for more of Jesus and His Words. It is devouring His Words and making them a part of your life. Act upon what you have read and heard.
Thirsting for righteousness is the desire to drink of the blood of Jesus. It is only by the blood of Jesus that you can be cleansed of all sin and impurities in your life.
God wants you to be righteous. He created you to be righteous. Adam and Eve were originally made perfectly righteous before God. They chose, just as everyone today does, to not be righteous before God against God’s desire.
God is more than willing to make you righteous if you desire. He will fill you with righteousness if you seek Him.
Today make it your desire to be hungry and thirsty for the righteousness of Jesus. Read God’s Word and devour it. God will fill you up. In this Jesus says you are blessed.
I pray today that you will be hungry and thirsty for the righteousness of Jesus; that God will fill you up; that you will not be hungry for what does not fill you; that God will put you in righteous standing before Him; and that you will allow God to work in you to make you more like Jesus everyday.
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