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Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness
Brian Mashburn
July 3, 2011
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The Supreme Blessing of Hunger
The more deeply I get to know the beatitudes, I find no way around a very convicting conclusion. Christianity, if that is what Jesus is describing, has largely gone untried by Christians.
The three beatitudes that have led up to the one we will study today are about emptying yourself. Seriously, how many Christians do you know who you would describe that way? How many are "empty of themselves"?
How many of you have really sought to connect with how completely needy you are for God? How many have chosen to be so sensitive to our sin and the misery of others that it keeps you constantly and appropriately sad? How many of you will meekly accept criticism or wrong without retaliation or defensiveness?
See what I mean?
Well, today we move into the fourth beatitude, which describes what would happen to you if you were to enter into the first three. With your ego-driven life now emptied, Christ says that what would remain is a hunger. A hunger and thirst for what is right. Hunger and a thirst for what is truly right through the eyes of God.
And, he says, if you will live like this, which is like Christ, like God himself, he promises that you will be satisfied.