Boy Am I Starved


"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." We realize when we eat physical food even though we were starving when we sat down that eventually we have to quit and say, "Boy, am I full." The Lord does not want us to be gluttons of the physical food but he does want us to be gluttons when it comes to hungering and thirsting after his word. I remember reading about a man who lost his eyes and hands in an explosion He couldn't use the artificial limbs to read Braille. He tried to use his lips to read but they were destroyed too. So by accident he found he could read the Braille with his tongue. He read the Bible through four times with his tongue. My friend, that is hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

Being righteous means to be declared not guilty or justified. Spiritually speaking one is found as though he had never sinned. Many are being taught today that we are all born in sin but the Bible teaches no such doctrine. I beg you show me if it does and I will retract the statement and repent for preaching a false doctrine. The Bible does teach that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son:" Ezekiel 18:20 Please take time to read the entire 18th chapter. The great apostle to the Gentiles said in Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Why didn't he say that all were born in sin? Simply because it is not true. Again I ask you to find it in the Bible, find where you as a baby were born a little sinner. Paul told the church to "Prove all things" in 1 Thessalonians 5:21. Don't cling to a doctrine you can't prove, and don't listen to a preacher who preaches things not fo
und in the Book. Yessiree, that means me too!! I believe that I am hungering and thirsting after righteousness. Psalm 119:172 says all of God's commands are righteousness. I do not want to obey in part but in whole.

Rather than remain in the parched, baked desert of sin, let us remember that Jesus said that he is the water and bread of life. (John 4:13-14; 6:35)

Morris Hafley



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