Matthew 5:6, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
What a great promise! Our part is to desire and want to know God’s truths, and God’s part is to satisfy and fill us. Since the Scriptures are the only way we can learn about what God teaches about righteousness, we need to have a desire to know the Word.
Hungering and thirsting are pretty strong emotions. God wants us to have the same intensity of desire to know His Word and His ways. It should be on the top of our list for activities of the day, before anything else. BUT, unfortunately it often takes a back seat to other things.
This hungering and thirsting after righteousness is satisfied when we are actually in the Word of God studying. It seems that nowadays everyone is so busy. This seems to be the most common excuse people use for not reading the Scriptures and mediating on what they read. (These two things go hand in hand. You must take the time to think about what you are reading if God’s Word is to become the guiding light in your life that it should be.”) The second most common excuse I hear is that, “I’m too tired.”
These two areas may seem like legitimate reasons to neglect our devotional time with God. But, are they really? I think not. Life can be busy and we can be tired by the end of the day but the truth is we find time for many of the things that we desire to do: watch T.V., read a newspaper, talk on the phone, check out face book, work on the computer, etc. If we are truly hungering and thirsting to fellowship with God and grow in the knowledge of His Word, we will find time to do so.
My challenge for you today is to evaluate the way you spend your time and decide if your priorities are what they should be – God first – before everything else!
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