The Daily Word

I wish I knew what I know now about Jesus and my salvation BUT could have been on earth when Jesus was on earth. The words that are recorded in the Bible of the Lord Jesus are perhaps just a fraction of the words He spoke but what is recorded is so profound and inspiring that there was no wonder He drew crowds to follow Him.

The fourth Beatitude leads us on in our Christian life and is an ambition we should surely follow. “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled”. The words ‘hunger’ and ‘thirst’ are very strong in meaning. They are used when someone is literally dying of hunger and thirst. They hark back to David’s psalm when he could say, ‘As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God’.

Worldly ambition is for wealth, power and prosperity, but Jesus knows, and we now know, that the only thing that satisfies our soul’s deepest longing is Jesus Himself, who IS our righteousness! He could say, “I am the bread of life” and when He met the woman of Samaria at the well He could talk to her and say that the Living Water he could bring would mean that that we would never thirst again, that we would never want anything else but Jesus.

We sing, ‘Knowing you, Jesus, …. there is no greater thing’ How true is that in each of our lives?

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church