Let us hunger and thirst for our Savior!

Our Savior, our Heavenly Teacher speaks these words, teaching us, expecting us to learn as He teaches--


Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.


Hunger and thirst. Have you ever hungered for something- other than food? What about thirsting after something other than drink? Hunger is a want, but not just a petty want. Hunger is a want that is hard pressed to be denied. Hunger and thirst when denied bring us pain. We've all suffered a bit of hunger and thirst, some of us have suffered a bit more from time to time, and others a great deal of pain has been the result of a constant hunger and thirst that they have to live with. Do many people want to feel great hunger and thirst? No. It's uncomfortable, it's painful.


A normal hunger, a normal thirst- the experience we deal with daily- signals us to eat and drink throughout our day so we can fill ourselves and get rid of the hunger and thirst. No one WANTS to be hungry and thirsty. Some might suffer through hunger to lose weight, or upon dr.s orders while awaiting tests, but the NORMAL person does not want to suffer hunger or thirst. We go to great lengths to make sure we have enough food and drink so we can forestall the worst of any hunger or thirst that might come along. We try to have 3 meals a day along with snacks, and as for drinking, well we do that all day long anytime we feel a touch of thirst. We want to be filled and we want the feeling we get from being comfortably full to last for as long as possible but inevitably that sip of water we took three hours ago isn't going to cut it for much longer, or that piece of toast we had in the morning won't keep us filling full until dinner time 8, 9 hours away. We start to feel hunger, we start to feel thirst and sometimes if we're lucky we'll wait that feeling out and it will abate for a bit, but it doesn't stay gone forever.


Hungering and thirsting creates a desire in us for nourishment.


Hunger and thirst are catalysts- creating the stimulus in us to seek sustenance.


Jesus wants us to have a desire for spiritual nourishment and that spiritual nourishment is … righteousness.


If we hunger and thirst for righteousness we will seek it until we find it and then we'll feed and drink from it until we are sated.


Let's read some verses on righteousness- this spiritual food and drink that Jesus would have us desire.


Pro 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Pro 13:6 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Pro 21:21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

Hos 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Zep 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

Jer 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Jas 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace

1Jn 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Deu 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.


Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.


Christ's righteousness! Righteousness in Christ! We are to hunger and thirst for our Savior! We can't hunger and thirst for OUR righteousness. It doesn't say that at all does it? In fact it's implied that we are seeking something we do not possess, we are seeking something to fill ourselves with, something we don't possess. We need Christ's righteousness. We need to understand that in seeking Christ's righteousness we will be filled because HE IS RIGHTEOUS! He is OUR righteousness!


We have no righteousness--


Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.


But our Savior is righteous and our hungering and thirsting after salvation in Christ and Christ alone by His grace is our righteousness.


1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.


Let us hunger for our Savior! Let us thirst for our Savior!


It's by Him we are saved and ONLY Him, we cannot save ourselves, we cannot produce our own righteousness.


By HIS GRACE!! BY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS may we be filled!


In His love!


Amen!