When dieting, the objective is mostly to loose weight, by usually eating less.  Usually after a few days of a diet, I start feeling that urge, to eat more, because I’m feeling hunger.  Hunger is our bodies ability to tell us it thinks we need more food, same with thirst to let us know we are dehydrated.  But our soul needs nutrition,  and if our soul is dead there is no need for food and drink.  When Christ quicken’s our soul, He brings us from death to life, we are now new creations, and if we are, we are alive.

To sustain spiritual life, we need to hunger and thirst for righteousness,  we need to search for God’s goodness.

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

Our spiritual food is hungering for righteousness, from God’s words, from God’s people, acts of kindness. We seek to follow God’s laws rather than this fallen worlds leanings and todderings.

In the beginning, all was righteous, but when Adam and Eve left the garden, the curse of sin entered the world, and in itself is like a clock winding down under the burden of sin. There is righteousness, and right thinking as compared to the Bible, but it does seem like the fields are barren.

God is promising that if we seek righteousness, He will provide it to us. He will not give us a little or a bit, but will feed us the righteousness we hunger for until we are full.

I once heard an interview with one of the righteous among the nations, the ones during the holocaust who risked everything to save the Jews. The interviewer asked “Why did you do it? Why did you risk everything for the lives of these strangers?” and her response was “I just knew what was right and didn’t follow everyone off the cliff of insanity.”   The person who seeks God’s perfect righteousness, will receive it in full measure in return.

As a Christian, I need to seek righteousness in all aspects of my life,  the urgency here is like hunger and thirst, I need it now.   To be righteous means I must be right, truthful, honest, full of integrity.   I must seek after this righteousness and harvest it like a farmer looking through his barren field for a few ears of grain.  I need to follow the righteous path, because God is ultimate in His righteousness.

I am promised, in return if I hunger after righteousness,  I will receive it until I am full.

Picture by Ales Krivec