Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Hunger and thirst express strong desire as plainly as anything can; nothing cuts keener or demands more urgently than these wants. A craving for righteousness, a deep sense of being a lost sinner who longs to be holy, shall be satisfied. God has never denied such desire, and the Gospel makes full provision for it.
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Christ crowns His sermon with blessings because He came to bless us, and His pronouncement makes us truly blessed. The world is wrong about happiness: it calls the rich and powerful blessed, but He calls the poor in spirit blessed instead, overturning every carnal notion of what makes a man happy.
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Commenting on Matthew 5:3-12
Not yearning for wealth or honor, but for Christ's justifying righteousness imputed to us by faith. To hunger for it means knowing our poverty, sensing our need through spiritual sight, valuing it above all other righteousness, and earnestly grasping it. They shall be filled with it and never seek another.
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