Matt: 5:6
Recently, I found myself wanting to know the deepest meaning of this verse. I was startled to discover that blessed is to “declare to be blessed those who are spiritually famished”. If we are thirsty, we turn on the facet and fill the glass with water. Hungry, open the refrigerator. To the ancient Palestinian they were never far from the possibility of dehydration or starvation. Jesus is far from recommending a polite, fashionable, courteous desire for spiritual food, but rather a desperate hungering. “As the deer pants for the water brook, so pants my soul after thee, O God”.
Righteousness…rightly related to…It is a continuous inner spiritual hunger , passion for Him! David ” my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water”. It spills over into society culture “thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
I can sit down to a plate of cookies and eat until satisfied. Coffee and cookies last for forty five minutes…I begin to hunger and thirst for more. It is true spiritually, the more fulfilled, the greater His presence, the more discontent I have because I long for more. Our hunger increases in the very act of being satisfied.
Thank God for such an incredible fulfilling journey.