So What Are You Hungry For?

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.  Matthew 5:6

To have Christ made of God to us righeousness, and to be made the righteousness of God in Him, to have the whole man renewed in righteousness, so as to become a new man and to bear the image of God; to have an interest in Christ and the promises--this is righteousness.

These we must hunger and thirst after.  We must truly and really desire them, as one who is hungry and thirsty desires meat and drink, who cannot be satisfied with anything but meat and drink, and will be satisfied with them, though other things be wanting.

Our desires of spiritual blessings must be earnest and importunate; Give me these, or else I die, everything else is dross and chaff, unsatisfying, give me these, and I have enough, though I had nothing else.  Hunger and thirst are appetites that return frequently, and call for fresh satisfactions, so these Holy desires rest not in anything attained, but are carried out toward renewed pardons, and daily fresh supplies of Grace.

The quickened soul calls for constant meals of righteousness, grace to do the work of everyday in its day, as duly as the living body calls for food.  Something or other the soul will be hungering and thirsting after; therefore they are blessed who fasten upon the right object; which is satisfying and not deceiving, and do not pant after the dust of the earth. (Matthew Henry)

No wonder I struggle so much; I knew I was making it harder than it was meant to be.  "Holy desires rest not in anything attained, but are carried out toward renewed pardons, and daily fresh supplies of Grace."  I'm going to be honest, I'm tired--tired of always trying to attain "something" within this Christian walk.  I've been on this road since I was ten--forty years; you would think by now I would have "His number--so to speak".

What I'm taking away from this passage is that I've literally been starving my soul--trying to carry on without a daily fresh supply of His Grace.  The human soul is always wanting "something" to fill it up; the key is to focus our need on Christ--to avoid panting after the dust of the earth--which never will satisfy.