“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (Matthew 5:6 NIV)
We do not come to be with Jesus because we are righteous or strong. The people gathered around Jesus because they were needy. In His [Sermon on the Mount] Jesus begins to explain the profound difference between the religious leaders’ teaching about attaining righteousness through their interpretation of the Law and traditions and the greater righteousness that moves beyond the Law to a relationship with God in Christ.
Our sinful, restricted self is uncomfortable and fights being revealed. But deeper within us is the longing for God, placed within our true self by God. We come to God as we are: caught by sin and longing for God; and we are always met by God’s grace and mercy.
-- Wendy Miller in “Learning to Listen”
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