There are large numbers of people in the Christian Church who seem to spend the whole of their lives seeking something which they can never find, seeking for some kind of happiness and blessedness. They go round from meeting to meeting, and convention to convention, always hoping they are going to get this wonderful thing, this experience that is going to fill them with joy, and flood them with some ecstasy. They see that other people have had it, but they themselves do not seem to get it. So they seek and covet it, always hungering and thirsting; but they never get it. Now that is not surprising. We are not meant to hunger and thirst after experiences; we are not meant to hunger and thirst after blessedness. If we want to be truly happy and blessed, we must hunger and thirst after righteousness. We must not put blessedness or happiness or experience in the first place. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. - D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon in the Mount
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:44:51 +0000
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