Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. —Matthew
5:6
It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy
and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes
he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.
Our Lord placed this beyond dispute when He said, "Blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be
filled." Hunger and thirst are physical sensations which, in their acute
stages, may become real pain. It has been the experience of countless seekers
after God that when their desires became a pain they were suddenly and
wonderfully filled. The problem is not to persuade God to fill us, but to want
God sufficiently to permit Him to do so. The average Christian is so cold and
so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into
which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
"Lord, quiet my heart today and
fill me with this holy longing. I don't want to be contented with my present
condition; I long for that vacuum of desire into which the Holy Spirit can
rush. Amen."
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