The Blessings of Humility Part 4

“Blessed are those who hunger & thirst for righteousness” (Matt 5:6). What causes believers to hunger & thirst for righteousness? It is a growing recognition of their own continued sinfulness, coupled with the glad realization that their sins are covered by the blood of Christ and that they are clothed with His righteousness. They deeply desire to be in their experience what they are in their standing before God. They long to be freed more and more from the persistent sin patterns in their lives and to see more of those gracious traits that the Bible calls “the fruit of the Spirit.” The tension between what they desire to be and what they see themselves still to be produces a continual state of humility toward God and other people.

By Jerry Bridges from TableTalk magazine February 2008 p45-46