Hungry For Righteousness
Matt 5:6--“Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.”
(NKJ) The forth beatitude speaks of
those who crave righteousness. Our
wanton society promotes the craving of many destructive ideas and practices,
but cannot be accused of promoting righteousness. The world glorifies sin, because Satan, the
prince of this world, is in the deceiving and destroying business.
One example of the work of Satan
is the attempted exclusion from our schools of the study of Jesus and the
Bible. It seems that many well meaning
(by their own standards) people think that allowing the study of Jesus and the
Bible in our public schools is a violation of the first amendment of our
constitution, the so called separation clause.
But the same amendment guarantees that the government will not prohibit
the free speech of individuals.
However, there are powerful
influences moving our public education more and more in the direction of
humanism and atheism. Those of us who
crave righteousness need to speak out against the influence of Satan in our government. When people reject the righteousness of God
and decide to do things as they think best, according to human wisdom, disaster
will follow. Those who reject the
righteousness of God will come up empty. They sow to the wind and will reap a
tornado.
But those who crave righteousness will be filled. Jesus came that we might have an abundant
life. Life does not consist primarily of
the physical things of life; but peace, joy, contentment, hope, faith, and love
are blessings that fill the cup of those who trust in the Lord. As David said in the 23rd Psalm; “my cup
runs over. Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the
LORD forever.”
Mary, mother of Jesus, said
this, Luke 1:46-53: "My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has
rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has
regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; for behold, henceforth all
generations will call me blessed. For He
who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from
generation to generation. He has shown
strength with His arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their
hearts. He has put down the mighty from
their thrones, and exalted the lowly. He
has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.”
God fills those who hunger for
righteousness, and He sends away empty those who trust in themselves. Jesus said: "Ask, and it will be
given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matt 7:7, NKJ) When we crave righteousness, we will be drawn
to Jesus, Who is the righteousness of God revealed in human flesh. When we hunger for righteousness, we hunger
for Jesus. As Apostle Paul wrote, Phil
3:8-11-- “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all
things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him,
not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know
Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.”
Jesus
can satisfy our deepest craving, the desire to be perfect and righteous. Those who trust in Him will not be put to
shame.
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