THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS                              Wednesday - September 1, 2010

“Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you.” – Hosea 10:12

During World War I, the British Army liberated Palestine from the Turks. As the British approached Beersheeba, they outdistanced the camel train that was carrying their water. Soon their canteens were empty and slowly many of the soldiers began to become extremely dehydrated in the desert. They knew that there were wells at Sheria and so they pressed on, knowing that if they did not take the wells there by nightfall thousands of them would die. In his book, The Romance of the Last Crusade, Major Vivian Gilbert recounts that day: “We fought that day as men fight for their lives and we were victorious. Entering Sheria station on the heels of the retreating Turks, the first objects which met our view were the great stone cisterns full of cold, clear, drinking water. We lined up in formation and waited our turn to drink. First the sick and wounded, then unit by unit. It took four hours before the last man was able to drink. Standing there at attention in that blazing heat all that time we could hear the water, smell it. I believe that we all learned our first real Bible lesson on that march from Beersheba to Sheria wells. If such were our thirst for God, for righteousness, for His will in our life, a consuming, all-embracing preoccupying desire, how rich the fruits of the Spirit would be."

The Lord desires to shower His righteousness on us, but we must thirst for it. Today in prayer, desire Christ in all you do and thirst for His righteousness.

"My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ." - M. Lloyd-Jones

God’s Word: “Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place” – Ephesians 6:14