Well after a few days off celebrating Thanksgiving the idea of hunger does not come to mind. You know the interesting thing here is that many people today in the Church are not hungry either and I am not talking about food hunger. In this verse Jesus like all through his ministry is creating a direct contrast between truth and fiction or in other words he is exposing religion and the sinfulness of the Pharisees. The Pharisees established a righteousness of their own. They were not seeking God for forgiveness because they did not feel they had anything to be forgiven. With this mind set nothing changes and God is ignored because religion profits us nothing! There is religion everywhere yet we continue to see society decay and fall into a further depraved trance where righteousness is ignored.
I love this verse because it shows what God wants from us and that is to have a hunger for righteousness. So what does it mean to have a hunger and thirst after righteousness? Do you hunger and thirst after righteousness?
Paul says in Roman 10 that the problem with Israel is that they had not desired Gods righteousness instead they created their own. He says something in verse 4 that sums it up “for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes”. You see what Jesus is saying in Matthew 5 is that anyone who hungers and thirst after righteousness will be filled because they will be given the only thing that can fill them. The hunger cannot be filled with worldly systems, traditions, and religion. There are tons of people who do not go to Church because when they go they are not getting what they need to fill the hunger.
A thirst has to be quenched and mans righteousness never can quench a thirst because we know deep inside we are failures. I remember when I was a kid there was an eclipse one year and everybody was making a big deal about the importance to not look up at the sun. They would not let us go outside and play at school that day but when I was leaving to go home as soon as I went outside I looked up. You see we naturally rebel against authority. Because of this it would not matter what anybody told me I had to do to get to heaven I would fail. The Mormons are convinced they can work their way into heaven by selling their cult and winning people to their false Church. They are not saved and they are not complete in their inner soul. They may be blinded by the god of this world the devil, but they are living with a thirst that is not quenched and a hunger that is not filled. The same goes for the heroin addict and the fake Christian who never misses a Church service. You see what Paul is saying in Romans 10:4 is that Jesus is righteousness, and when you seek after righteousness you are seeking after Jesus. Only Jesus can quench that thirst and fill that hunger. We are poor wretched sinners who stand before the mercy of a holy and righteous judge. Only Jesus can help and only Jesus can save. Man can try and work out a system or create a mindset that justifies his goodness, but it want stand a chance when he comes before God.
Do you desire Jesus in your life? Listen I fail him as often as I blink but Jesus is everything to me! I do not serve religion or the Church but I serve Jesus. I can’t wait to go to Church because I serve Jesus. Your life needs to be about him, and I want you to know that it can be. All you have to do is turn to Jesus. When you turn to Jesus you turn away form sin because there is no sin in him!
Jesus Saves,
RR
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