by Dona Hake
The other morning I found myself reading the beatitudes in the Amplified version and I was loving the wording in this translation. God desires that we hunger for His righteousness so that He can fulfill that desire. Let us look at Luke 6:21 in the Amplified:
“Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness]
are you who hunger now [for righteousness, actively
seeking right standing with God], for you will be [completely] satisfied.”
The words that stood out to me and ministered to my heart were ~blessed~ being defined as ~joyful, nourished by God’s goodness~ You know when we are hungry in the natural, we can reach for the wrong things, and they certainly to not nourish our bodies. Yet if we are hungry we can reach for that thing that will bring healthy nourishment to our bodies. I love though how His Word is showing us that as we hunger from deep within for His righteousness that we will be nourished by His goodness, and the blessing of joy will accompany that filling from Him.
As we seek to walk in righteousness, we are desiring to walk in all that God is. He is all good, He is all moral excellence, He is all virtue, and He is all pure! May we actively hunger after His righteousness all the days of our lives for as we do, we will be satisfied and spiritually nourished in that desire.
Psalm 17:15 AMP
As for me, I shall see Your face in
righteousness; I will be [fully] satisfied when I awake
[to find myself] seeing Your likeness.