What Are You Hungry For?

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

Being blessed by God and receiving blessings from Him is something that Christians often take for granted. If you were to make a list of God’s blessings on your life, what would you include? Which blessings would come to mind first as you worked on your list? If you came back to prioritize your list, which ones would you place near the top?

For many of us, certain material blessings that God has given to us would be the first that we would think of, and some of those blessings would remain near the top of our list, even after we began to place our blessings in the order of their importance to us. Jesus certainly looked at life differently. He taught us in the text above that it was a blessing to have a desire to be righteous. And what is the reason that this desire for righteousness is a blessing? “…For they shall be filled.” In other words, those who desire to be righteous will be righteous, and being righteous is a blessing in and of itself.

Some foods are certainly more desirable than others. Dietitians encourage us to eat plenty of vegetables. If we find that vegetables are not very appealing, we can begin to develop a taste for them by including them in our diets.

Do you have a hunger for spiritual things? Jesus said that we need to work to develop a hunger and thirst for righteousness. We can do this by spending time in His Word.