Beatitude #4 Matthew 5:6

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”

Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness?  This is a pretty simple litmus test for whether you are saved from your sins or not.

If you thirst for righteousness you are like a sponge that just can’t soak up enough scripture.  The more you read the more excited you get about the truth of the Trinity and rejoice over the salvation for those who would trust in Christ.

Do you trust in being good enough to go to heaven?  Here Jesus speaks of those who HUNGER for righteousness.  Remember again to go back and read Beatitude #1  as He continues to build an image of the person who will be saved from their sins.  Romans 3 says there is NONE righteous.  Only Christ can be our righteousness.  So we must HUNGER and THIRST for Christ and we will be satisfied.

CHRIST Crucified for sinners, buried for believers, who rose for the repentant and applies righteousness to them who hunger and thirst for Him who ascended to the Father.

Pray to Him if you feel lacking.  It is the Holy Spirit who takes us the unworthy and unfaithful and causes us to hunger and thirst for righteousness.