for they will be filled.
Righteousness is one of the "big" words in Christianity and one that is often misunderstood. To be righteous is not dressing the part, going through the motions, following a list of rules. To be righteous literally means to be right with God or before God. It doesn't end there. It also involves desiring to do what God would have us do. Simply put it is to be right before God and to do right by God. This is not something that we do or earn it is through faith in Christ and what He has accomplished for us. The Message paraphrase may help our understanding by relating righteousness to our appetite for God.
. Matthew 5:6(MSG) "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
I signed up for a weight-loss program and will weigh in today. I will be going on a diet (wish me luck). I'm sure that along the way I will hunger and thirst for things. Do you have days where you hunger and thirst for food, you see an advertisement for a steak or pizza and you desire it? In reading the verse from The Message you may have asked yourself the question "what is my appetite for God". Do you hunger and crave His Word, wanting to spend more time with God in prayer, letting Him lead you in your walk?
Maybe we need to go on a diet from other things and focus more on growing in the "grace and knowledge of our Lord". If we do so, we will be filled and fit for the Christian walk of faith.
2 Peter 3:18 (ESV) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Blessings,
Mike
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Matthew 5:3-9 The Message (MSG)
3"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
4"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
5"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.
6"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
7"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.
8"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
9"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.
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