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What Are We Hungry and Thirsty For?

by Jerry Ousley
1/05/2018 / Christian Living

That late evening special, something crave … know what I’m talking about? You feel like you need, no want something, something sweet? Maybe … something salty? That sounds good too. But that’s not quite it. Can’t put my finger on it. So I start to experiment. A big spoonful of peanut butter. Man that was good … sweet and salty but it just didn’t quite fill that crave. What about popcorn? Now there’s a good suggestion. But no, that didn’t quite do it either. Got it … a chunk of Colby-Jack cheese with ritz crackers and a soda of some kind. Now that was very good. But I just can’t quite get that one special thing.

Any question as to why I weight what I do? We get a crave and just can’t quite get the right thing until we are full of things we thought was it and now we have eaten snacks well after 6:00 pm. I shouldn’t have done that but now its water under the bridge, or should I say calories behind the belt?

We have the luxury here in the good old US of A to do that. Most people in the world do not. They are simply lucky to have a good solid meal today. We are spoiled. But the comparison is something we can see when we ask ourselves spiritually just what should we be hungry and thirsty for?

Jesus said in Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled …” That is it; righteousness. Righteousness could be defined as Right Us Ness. It is our desire and need to be right. Right about our opinions, right about our choices in life and right to all our friends and acquaintances. We have a self-centered need to be right. The problem is we aren’t always right and when it comes to our opinions we may not even be close. But we think we are and we need to be.

Wars have been fought over who was right and who was wrong. For some strange reason we think that if we are tough enough, strong enough, and beat enough people that this will make us right. But the fact of the matter is that no matter how strong we might be and how many people we beat up along the way, our strength may allow us to come out on top over our foe but if we were wrong when the fight started we are still wrong with our beaten foe laying before us. Might don’t make right. Men will go to nearly any extent to be right; to be righteous, even if they are not. So even if our might seems to prove us right, we are left with a path of defeated foes behind us but still craving that one thing that can’t seem to be filled up in us – the ability to be right.

The only way to be truly righteous is to once and for all realize that we are truly wrong, always have been wrong and in our selfish selves will always be wrong. We can never be righteous in ourselves. As we mentioned in the last article in this series Isaiah said that all our righteousness is nothing but filthy rags. This means (God’s words now not mine) that the most righteous human being on this planet is no better than a pile of filthy menstrual (this is the true meaning of “filthy rags”), germ-ridden rags. Not a very good record for being right I’d say.

So here is the problem. We want to be right. We need to be right. But in ourselves there is no way to be right. Yet Jesus told us in Matthew 5:48 that we are to be perfect just like God is perfect.” Yikes! Now how are we ever going to do that when we can hope to be no better than a filthy mess that God wouldn’t even look on? Seems hopeless doesn’t it? And it is in ourselves. Myself – Jerry D Ousley am supposed to be perfect just like God is perfect if I ever hope to be righteous. But I can’t. Woe is me! Woe is me! Woe is me!

But there is one way, and only one way. God became man in the form of His son Jesus Christ. God lived a sinless righteous life on Earth – The only one to ever do so. God in the form of Jesus Christ allowed His blood to be spilled on Calvary as the human sinless sacrifice for sin. After three days he arose from the dead thus conquering sin and death for us all. Now the only requirement is for us to become dead and raised in newness of life in Him and we can take on His righteousness. We can only be perfect as God is perfect if the perfect God is in us. His righteousness makes us righteous. What a concept … what an idea!

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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