If we won’t
Seek to be
In sync with God,
We’ll be hobbled
All life long.

Desires can be diminished,
Or they can be strengthened.
We have the choice
To revel in a desire
Or to resist it.
Choose to cultivate
Wholesome desires.

To “hunger and thirst for righteousness” is to crave and live to be in sync with and in submission to the living God. Jesus taught that being hungry to live right is a good thing. If we’d develop and pursue the desire to do right instead of wrong, we’d overcome much self-imposed destruction and guilt.

Desire’s good when it motivates you to pursue good; bad when it enslaves you to bad. Train your heart to hunger for what is right.

Without hunger for more of God, people become spiritually satisfied and complacent. If you’re not hungry for a closer relationship with God, you won’t be motivated to pursue Him.

The religious authorities “hurled insults at” a blind man Jesus caused to see and “threw him out.” (John 9.) They still do.

To admit that “Jesus is Lord,” is to surrender your will to His. Jesus’ Lordship, Jesus’ choice.

Jesus is the way
But He’s not a program,
A curriculum or technique,
Or a religion to follow.
He wants to personally lead His people
By His active presence within us.

To hunger
For what shames
Your conscience
Is to play
Guilty games.