Blessed are the Meek and the Hungry
Matthew 5:5
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
Meek, not weak. Being meek means being willing to lay aside your will and wants to another.
Common example - horse which is ridden under control.
Ultimate example is Christ.
Matthew 5:6
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."
Hungering and Thirsting
David declared, "O God, Thou art my God," but continued, "I shall seek Thee earnestly; my soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh yearns for Thee, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1).
John Darby wrote, "To be hungry is not enough; I must be really starving to know what is in God's heart toward me. When the prodigal son was hungry, he went to feed on the husks, but when he was starving, he turned to his father."
During the liberation of Palestine in World War I, a combined force of British, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers was closely pursuing the Turks as they retreated from the desert. As the allied troops moved northward past Beersheba they began to outdistance their water-carrying camel train. When the water ran out, their mouths got dry, their heads ached, and they became dizzy and faint. Eyes became bloodshot, lips swelled and turned purple, and mirages became common. They knew that if they did not make the wells of Sheriah by nightfall, thousands of them would die-as hundreds already had done. Literally fighting for their lives, they managed to drive the Turks from Sheriah.
As water was distributed from the great stone cisterns, the more able-bodied were required to stand at attention and wait for the wounded and those who would take guard duty to drink first. It was four hours before the last man had his drink. During that time the men stood no more than twenty feet from thousands of gallons of water, to drink of which had been their consuming passion for many agonizing days. It is said that one of the officers who was present reported, "I believe that we all learned our first real Bible lesson on the march from Beersheba to Sheriah Wells. If such were our thirst for God, for righteousness and for His will in our lives, a consuming, all-embracing, preoccupying desire, how rich in the fruit of the Spirit would we be?" (E. M. Blaiklock, "Water," Eternity (August 1966), p. 27).
for they will be filled.
God's satisfying those who seek and love Him is a repeated theme in the Psalms. "For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with what is good" (Psalm 107:9). "The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; but they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing" (Psalm 34:10).
John 6:35
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst"
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