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Hunger Pains


 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled”
Matt. 5:6

      To look at a physical necessity in a spiritual manner can sometimes be difficult. If we truly get our minds around the concept it is simple.  Some of us may not know what it means to be hungry, or thirsty. However, we can understand that we can’t make it more than three days without water. Which at the third day your body has already started shutting down. We can understand that we can’t go without food for seven days. Which at that time your body will shut down.  Those are our absolute limits when it comes to food and water.

    That hunger and thirst pain is what is being addressed. Those pains are mental triggers and body signals that lets us know we must have something now. Christ says this about righteousness. "You mean we are to have that sort of pain and over whelming necessity for righteousness?" Yes, without it your spiritual body will shut down. We must understand that we are to crave righteousness for without we are dead.

    What we are filled with is what will put us into eternal life (John 4:13-14). You see it is not a physical hunger and thirst but a spiritual one. It’s an unending spiritual desire filled by Christ continually. This filling can only come from Christ (Eph. 1:3; Acts 4:11-12; John 14:6). Righteousness is keeping God’s commandments (Luke 1:6). Those commands are revealed in the gospel (Rom. 1:16-17; Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 2:42; 2 Tim. 3:16-17). Such filling righteousness may be obtained only in obeying God’s commands (Psalm 119:172; 2 Thess. 1:3-12 *8).


How can we compare the pains of physical hunger and thirst with spiritual?

How do we hunger for righteousness?

How do we thirst for righteousness?

What makes us hunger and thirst for righteousness?

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