We are not meant to hunger and thirst after experiences. We are not meant to hunger and thirst after blessedness. If we wabtr to be truly happy and blessed, we must hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Experiences are a gift from God, but we must covet and seek righteousness.
What is this righteousness then? It is not a sort of general righteousness or morality between nations.
Men wax eloquent about how countries threaten the peace of the world, break their contracts, yetr are disloyal to their wives and disloyal to their own marriage contracts.
Think of a man who is suffering from some painful disease. If the doctor only treats the pain, and does not discover the cause of the pain, and treat that, he is a very bad doctor. He is doing something that is extremely dangerous to the life of the patient.
Remember ‘blessed’ means happy. The whole world is seeking happiness, but it is the great tragedy of the world that it never seems to be able to find it.
According to the Scriptures, happiness is never something that should be sought directly.
It is always something that results from seeking something else.
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness you will be doomed to misery. Put happiness in the place of righteousness and you will never get it.
We have been told that we must be poor in spirit, that we must mourn, that we must be meek.
Here we begin to look for a solution. For the deliverance from self for which which we long.
It is the great charter for every seeking soul.
It is doctrinal. It emphasises one of the most fundamental doctrines of the gospel, namely, that our salvation is entirely of grace, or by grace. That it is entirely the gift of God.
‘Blessed Are They Which Do Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness’. If this verse is to you one of the most blessed statement of the whole of Scripture you can be certain you are a Christian. If it is not, then you had better examine the foundations again.
Chapter 7. Beatitude 4: Blessed Are They Which Do Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness (for they shall be filled).
If every person knew what it was to hunger and thirst after righteousness there would be no war. Here is the only way to real peace.
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One of the greatest tragedies in the life of the Church today is the way in which so many are content with these vague, general, useless statements about war and peace instead of preaching the gospel in all it’s simplicity and purity.
@EhzNow I used to follow Scott Adams on Twitter. He would ask for ideas and I mentioned a co-worker who would munch apples really loudly. It bothered me far too much at the time!
Three months later he posted this and thanked me for the idea ☺️ t.co/BfcCBd8BG… 
@EhzNow Love that first one!
Isaiah 42:14-16 The future promise. bible.com/bible/59/isa.4… t.co/5Aan4TL7E… 
God’s care is first to His children.
To those who mock the ‘foolishness of the Cross’, wondering why He doesn’t show himself to them, is it any wonder? All are welcome at His table. Accept His gift, let Him in to your heart. twitter.com/johnpiper/stat… twitter.com/JohnPiper/stat…
@shemaiahng @NWestCatholic This made me think about real forgiveness and hurt in a different way. Acknowledging how you felt, giving yourself over to God’s will and being gracious in that moment - with God’s grace - this is what Jesus means when he said ‘blessed are the meek’.
@JesseDornfeld There are some tweaks I could still try, I’m getting used to the config at the moment. It’s a basic setup, minimal customisation, but I wanted an easy workflow with a focus on content, and it works for that.
@JesseDornfeld I’m glad you found it - I was concerned the ‘Long Reads’ would get lost amongst the shorter posts.
@JesseDornfeld Thank you Jesse. It’s a distillation of Martyn Lloyd-Jones Sermon on the subject. I need to improve the citations on the Blog. On Twitter it’s linked to #MLJbeatitudes for context.
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Currently a repository for material first posted here, I hope to do more with it for longer reads in the future. weneedanark.micro.blog
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@Marry265201904 My wife’s mum used to say ‘there’s no pockets in a shroud’. And she was right!
@JesseDornfeld @w_bitterman Big question: is my name David or Moses?
@JesseDornfeld By your profile pic, I always thought you might have a close family resemblance to Daevid Allen from the band Gong. I couldn’t find any pictures that adequately did my theory justice, however…