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Excerpted from: Children of the LightAgain, here the word for righteousness probably has two meanings. I know a lot of people like to focus on the hunger and thirsting. Let us focus on the word righteousness for a minute because I think it kind of shows us two meanings here, probably. One would certainly be, of course, personal. It is the strong desire to be pleasing to God, to do what God wants, to live up to His will, keeping His commandments and having that strong desire to want to obey Him and avoid sin, and showing our love for keeping His commandments. And that is what Jesus said: "If you love Me, keep My commandments," and all His commandments are righteousness.
But out of this also will grow the desire for righteousness in the land, on the earth. You see, because we are talking about the desire for justice, for righteousness to rule in this world because it is such an evil world and it is getting darker and darker with every passing week; it seems like every passing day, really. And Jesus Christ is coming back to straighten all this out. But first our hunger and thirsting is for His Kingdom. You see, do we hunger and thirst? That is the question we need to ask ourselves.
Do we hunger and thirst for the Kingdom of God to come? Remember, as part of our outline of our prayer, Jesus said, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." How bad do we want that to come? And I think our hungering and thirsting should be toward that, when our Lord, He is going to be putting an end to sin. He is going to be putting an end to transgressions, which is rebellion. And He is going to make an end to sin, which is iniquity. And what is He going to do? He is going to usher in everlasting righteousness.
Matthew 5:6
Excerpted from: Prayer and FervencyDo babies earnestly let you know when they are hungry? They cry. They yell. They get red in the face. They let you know without doubt that they want you and they want something from you. There is desire created by their hunger. Let us go back in the book of Matthew again, this time to chapter 5.
Desire, brethren, is an inward longing for something we do not have but feel we need. And hunger and thirst are appetites given to us by God to make us aware of a need. Hunger for God's Word and His attributes are the spiritual appetite given by God to make us aware of spiritual needs. I have never heard of any of these pagans praying to their idols and asking them for love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, meekness, self-control. They ask for other things—material things, material blessings.
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