Matthew 5:6 " Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."
Are you famished for righteousness?  Do you thirst for what is right and just, holy and innocent?

What does "righteousness" really mean?   According to Vines it is " the character or quality of being right or just".  Righteousness starts with God - He is righteous.  He is faithful, He is truthful,  and He is holy.  Because of His righteousness, He cannot be indifferent to sin.  Yet, His righteousness is exhibited in the death of Christ. "The righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ is the righteous dealing of God with sin and with sinners on the ground of the death of Christ." Through the New Testament,  Vines goes on to say,  it refers most often to "that gracious gift of God to men whereby all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ are brought into right relationship with God. This righteousness  is unattainable by obedience to any law, or by any merit of man's own, or any other condition than that of faith in Christ... The man who trusts in Christ becomes 'the righteousness of God in Him.'... becomes in Christ all that God requires a man to be, all that he could never be in himself."
 It goes on to say, "Because Abraham accepted the Word of God, making it his own by the act of mind and spirit which is called faith, and, as the sequel showed, submitting himself to its control, therefore God accepted him as one who fulfilled the whole of His requirements." Romans 4 :5 states that for him who believes, "his faith is reckoned as righteousness."  Vines says " The faith being exercised brings the soul into vital union with God in Christ, and inevitably produces righteousness of life, that is, conformity to the will of God."

So back to my question, do you.... do I, hunger, am I famished and parched, to be conformed perfectly to God's will for me?  To be all that He requires me to be?  Is it continual, daily desire?  I hunger for physical food and drink throughout my day, it is necessary for life.  My spiritual hunger and thirst should be even more  important, more necessary, more vital.  To be in right relationship with my God, through faith in Christ alone.  For the grace gift of righteousness reckoned to me by His sacrifice on the cross.  I do hunger and thirst for Your righteousness, Lord!

And the promise here?  "they shall be satisfied".   Filled, supplied with all that is needed.  Amazing grace!
Thank you Jesus!