Lesson 4 – Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled

Ignorance is not bliss! The more Word we have on the inside, the more equipped we will be to stand against the enemy's wiles! 

In essence, we can be as close to God as we want to be! 

A true sign of spiritual maturity and growth is wanting to live in holiness, is wanting to learn more, growing, and being mature.

After all the Bible says, be holy, for I am holy. 

Think about it in simple terms for a moment. Perhaps there is a mentor, parent, or role model in your life that you really look up to. Don’t you want to make them proud? Don’t you want to do the things that you know they like in order to show them how much you love and honor them? 

Think about the small girl who wants to be like her mommy or the boy who follows his daddy around doing and saying the same things. We all want to be valued and appreciated and it is only natural to want to be like the people in our lives we really value and look up to. 

In the same manner, God has graciously adopted us into His family! Given us a new heart and a new name and we should want to be close to Him, to be like Him!

However, the desire to want to be holy, to be like God, or to want to go upstream in a culture that is constantly screaming at us to go the other way, is not always what believers want to do.

The propensity to grow weary is a real thing, thus why Paul encourages us in Galatians not to grow weary in well doing. (See Galatians 6:9)

The good news is this: We don’t have to do things to get Him to like us, love us, or accept us! He already does! Also, we don’t have to try and be more righteous or holy apart from Him. We can’t. He did all the work on the cross and we will never be more holy than we already are in Him. But we can still grow closer to Him each day, tossing aside things that keep us from growing closer to Him and walking in love toward others. 

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