What Are You Hungry For?

Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” The late Malcolm Muggeridge, a successful writer, had a good grasp of what that meant. Here’s his take on it.

"I may, I suppose, regard myself or pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets—that's fame. I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Internal Revenue—that's success. Furnished with money and a little fame even the elderly, if they care to, may partake of trendy diversions—that's pleasure."

"It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time--that's fulfillment. Yet, I say to you--and I beg you to believe me--multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing--less than nothing, a positive impediment--measured against one draft of that living water Christ offers to the spiritually thirsty, irrespective of who or what they are."

So what are you hungry for? Wealth? Fame? Fulfillment? Love? Respect? Whatever it is, if you happen to find it, I can promise you that it will not satisfy. You will still be hungry. But if you hunger and thirst for righteousness you will be filled. For when you find righteousness, you will have found Christ. This is how the Apostle Paul said it.

I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ-- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (Phil 3:8-9 NIV)