Appetite for God

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

Each of us understands the concepts of hunger and thirst, experiencing them
daily as our body tells us that we need food or drink.  This verse tells us
however that the blessed are those need a different sort of nourishment.
Happy are you if you have an appetite for righteousness, or in other words
you are hungry for holiness and the justice of God.

Certainly this hunger and thirst for goodness is not natural to mankind, as
the Bible tells us: “There is none righteous, no, not one…”   It is the only
righteous One that can forgive the unrighteous, and through example,
instruction and continuous fellowship can the first pangs of this hunger be
born in us. Blessed are you, once you crave God’s fellowship and that of His
people and starve for His justice.

The first Psalm says, “For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but
the way of the ungodly shall perish.”Do we know the way of the right?  If
you truly do hunger and thirst after God’s right ways, then we are promised
to be filled. We could say in almost every circumstance, with whatever you
hunger after you will be filled with.  May we feast on the right meals.