Daily Verse
July 2
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Matthew 5:6 ‘Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.’
Hunger and thirst will produce an urgency to find food and drink.
They are healthy and natural desires.
When we hunger and thirst for righteousness
it is because we can find no resources in ourselves to satisfy our need.
Self righteousness will never produce a hunger and thirst for righteousness.
It is because of our lack of righteousness that we hunger and thirst for it.
The desire for righteousness can only be fulfilled in Christ;
and not by our own efforts.
We are blessed because the life of Christ dwells in us;
changing us into His likeness;
and producing in us the fruit of a righteous life.