The Alpha of the Keys of Life

UV 3157/10000 The Alpha of The Keys of Life
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Matthew 5 v 6

The word “behave” has in it the clues to life. We need to “be” before we can “have”. Jesus in the Sermon on the mount puts it pithily in the beatitudes or the “be”-attitudes. We need to “be merciful” before we can “have mercy. “ Everything we can have including the Earth as well as the “kingdom of God” is preceded by a “be”. As human beings we need to be all that in order to have all that. These are the things that are eternal and valuable from the perspective of eternity or of eternal life that begins the moment we “be-lieve” in Jesus and we can have these if we also “be” or possess and practice these attitudes.
In the uni-verse above, we got to be hungry and thirsty which means yearn with all of our hearts and all of our being for the righteousness of God, the “set apartness”, the holiness, the perfection of the Lord manifested in Jesus. It means that we got to be hungry and thirsty for the word of God which has the principles of righteousness, the practices, the models, the precepts of righteous living. When we are so “hungry and thirsty” or so desperately desirous more than all the things of this world, then the Lord will satiate or satisfy us with His blessings, His promises, with fulfilment of the promises.

To represent the kind of hunger and thirst or zeal we should have, the simile the word uses is that of a deer that is tired and hungry after running a while, escaping the claws of death and injury of the roaring lion of this world- the enemy of our souls. The deer at the end of a day of running in the hot sun is longing for water as it would for dear life. We need to desire the word as if our lives depended on our hearing it and being, what we hear, here and now. Another simile is that of dry, lifeless, broken and parched land soaking up and being healed and made whole and fertile or productive by falling rain of the specific word of God directed at us. Our hunger and thirst should exceed the desire of the prospector for gold or silver or precious stones. We should be more hungry and thirsty than the poor man who desires only a piece of bread to satisfy his intense hunger, a glass of water to quench his burning thirst.