The Hungry and Thirsty

 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:

for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6

 

I’ve watched You walk across Scripture’s pages:

The holy, spotless One

Whose piercing gaze looks through the ages

With truth and grace, heaven’s bright Son.

You put in us a holy hunger

To stand before You as we ought;

But in countless ways, the whole world over,

Your Divine smile billions have sought.

 

The thirst to know that You’re pleased with me

Can only be quenched one way:

“O righteous, innocent Lamb, I plead

Give what I could never earn or pay.”

Then Your endless supply of righteousness

Is mine for eternity!

A beggar no more, with Bread I am blessed,

Enjoying the cup of salvation* daily.

 

 

*Psalm 116:12-13