POST #23: JESUS' SERMON ON THE MOUNT: Hunger and Thirst for JESUS... HE is our RIGHTeousness

I often think about the many people who come to the Mayo clinic, pursuing help to make things "right" for their bodies.  Each week I meet some of these people and hear their stories.  Many of them have been on quite a journey trying to find answers for physical healing.   

There are also many people, who you and I come in contact with every day,  who are on a journey  of spiritual healing.  Hopefully, it's a journey we are all on!  Do we have the desire, craving, determination, perseverance, and focus for our souls/spirits to work "the right way"?  There are so many choices out there!

In Matthew 5, Jesus speaks the 4th Be-attitude,

"Blessed are those who 
hunger and thirst for RIGHTeousness,

for they will be filled."

What is RIGHTeousness?  Webster's definition is:

1. morally upright without guilt or sin
2. in accordance with virtue or morality
3. morally justifiable
4. Christ-likeness

If the Bible says that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", then how can I be RIGHTeous if I have sinned.  Isn't RIGHTeousness "without guilt or sin"?


Aha!  Maybe the better question is, "WHO is RIGHTeousness?"

1 Corinthians 1:30, speaks of JESUS in this way,

"HE is the source of your life in CHRIST JESUS, whom GOD made:

•  our wisdom
•  our RIGHTeousness and
•  sanctification and
•  redemption..."

Thank You, GOD, that my spiritual desire, craving, determination, perseverance, and focus are really a  "hungering and thirsting for RIGHTeousness" ... that means a hungering and thirsting for JESUS!

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO

HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JESUS....

So grateful today, 
JESUS,

that YOU are our RIGHTeousness! 

BLESSED!  OH, THE JOY!