“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matt 5:6)
If you and I shall, by divine grace, attain to blessedness hereafter, it will be because god has restored us to righteousness.
We can not be truly happy and live in sin. Holiness is the natural element of blessedness and it can no more live out of that element than a fish could live in the fire. The happiness of man must come through righteousness: his being right with god, with man, with himself, his being right all around.
The massive blessedness of the past and the priceless blessedness of the eternal future are joined together by a band of present blessedness.
Hunger and thirst are different, but they are both the language of keen desire.
His whole being fights to satisfy his awful needs. Blessed are they that have a longing for righteousness, which no one craving can set forth. Hunger must be joined with thirst, to set forth the strengths and enthusiasm of the desire after righteousness. Hunger and thirst are irrepressible until you feed the man, his wants will continue to devour him you may give a hungry man the best music that was ever drawn from strings, or breathed from pipes, but his crawling are not soothed: you do but mock him.
It is righteousness which the man pants after, righteousness in all its meanings. The broken sprit of god shows him that he is all wrong with god, for he has broken all law which caught to have rapt, and he has not paid the homage and love which were justly due. The same spirit of god, makes him long to get right with god; and his conscience being aroused, he can’t rest till this is done. This of course includes the pardon of his offences and the giving to him of a righteousness which will make him acceptable to god. He eagerly cries to god for this boon. One of the bitterest pangs of his soul hunger is the dread that this need can never be met.
When he hears of righteousness by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, he leaps as it, and lays hold upon it, for it exactly meets his case. The man hungering after righteousness ought to consider himself a happy man because he has been made to know the right value of things. The lord has brought him to know what is good, and what it is that the lord doth of him.
The more you thing of the righteousness of Christ, the more it will fill you with grateful satisfaction, for his righteousness is far greater than your unrighteousness.
Yet you will be crying all the time “O, lord, perfect me in tine image and give me righteousness!” a Fullness of divine content, even to running over, will be yours, while you sing “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Jesus “.
If you are hungering and thirsting, what should you do? Look to Jesus, for he alone can satisfy you. Believe on your lord Jesus Christ. Believe on him now, for he is made of good unto as righteousness.
May everybody here begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness at once. Let us all say “Amen”
Jayan Thomas
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