They Shall be Filled

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6)

This one is almost impossible to interpret in today’s image, especially the word righteousness, for there is no real interpretation of this word that we can understand in the way that Jesus presents it.

Martin Luther King gave a wonderful talk where he proclaimed, “ I have a dream.” That dream has yet to be fulfilled. That dream is so very tied to the righteousness that Jesus refers to that the similarities are chilling to the bone. Martin’s world, and Jesus’ world, is the dream, their image is the dream, and the dream is beautiful, where the material world, is pure evil.

Mankind cares little for those who hunger for righteousness; mankind cares only for the other god, money.

Follow me for a moment; by using illusion, I have turned my body into a tree, and we all know that most of a tree’s life is underground.

In this way, I have been able to get by the wall that society has placed in front of me, that material restriction called money, and allowed me to rise from the depths of the darkness of discouragement to see the blue skies of God’s reality.

The clouds of ugliness that society’s greed has placed upon us are only temporal; God does not place them there. We also we soar high, following the flight of birds, off the branches of God’s trees, to be fulfilled in the richness of God’s everlasting of Love, achieving the righteousness promised by Jesus.

Let’s meditate on the. . . and Happy New Year!