Filled With His Righteousness

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for March 10
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Filled With His Righteousness

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for
they shall be filled. Matt. 5:6.

Righteousness is holiness, likeness to God, and "God is love." 1 John
4:16. It is conformity to the law of God, for "all thy commandments are
righteousness" (Ps. 119:172), and "love is the fulfilling of the law"
(Rom. 13:10). Righteousness is love, and love is the light and the life
of God. The righteousness of God is embodied in Christ. We receive
righteousness by receiving Him.

Not by painful struggles or wearisome toil, not by gift or sacrifice, is
righteousness obtained; but it is freely given to every soul who hungers
and thirsts to receive it. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat;. . . without
money and without price." Isa. 55:1. "Their righteousness is of me,
saith the Lord," and, "This is his name whereby he shall be called, The
Lord our righteousness." Isa. 54:17; Jer. 23:6.

No human agent can supply that which will satisfy the hunger and thirst
of the soul. But Jesus says, . . "I am the bread of life: he that cometh
to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst." John 6:35. . . .

The more we know of God, the higher will be our ideal of character and
the more earnest our longing to reflect His likeness. A divine element
combines with the human when the soul reaches out after God and the
longing heart can say, "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my
expectation is from him." Ps. 62:5. . . .

The continual cry of the heart is, "More of Thee," and ever the Spirit's
answer is, "Much more." Rom. 5:9, 10. . . . It was the good pleasure of
the Father that in Christ should "all the fulness dwell," and "in him ye
are made full." Col. 1:19, R.V.; 2:10, R.V.

Christ is the great depository of justifying righteousness and
sanctifying grace. 

All may come to Him, and receive of His fullness. 

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 71.