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ARE YOU HUNGRY AND THIRSTY?
Today we continue the series, THE BEAUTIFUL ATTITUDES which I was writing to you before leaving for Europe.
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).
God is calling for men whose utmost desire is to seek after righteousness. How wonderful it would be if each one who calls himself "Christian" would have an insatiable hunger and thirst for righteousness, not only for their own lives, but also for their city, state, nation, and the world.
This hunger and thirst should, and can be, so great that it drives us to our knees in earnest prayer that all ungodliness and corruption will cease and that godliness will flood the land.
Men, all the while the prayer meetings are empty and unattended, or if they are lifeless and without passion, it reveals our failure to hunger and thirst for righteousness.
When someone is deprived of food and water, they soon become desperate for these essential commodities of life. If we were genuinely, both individually and corporately, hungry and thirsty for righteousness, the prayer meetings would be packed full of people crying out to God.
We can say ever so quickly that we love righteousness, but how much do we hunger and thirst for it? It is only the hungry and thirsty who are promised the filling. It is not for those who merely make casual requests for it.
Prayer meetings are really for the hungry and thirsty. The rest may as well stay home. They will only take up the time with insincere and impassionate empty words.
Men, where are the hungry and thirsty? They are crying out to God?
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
