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

Our bodies have a built in mechanism that causes hunger and thirst, so that we have a desire for the food and liquids necessary to keep us healthy. If we don’t respond to that, we suffer. If we respond by eating and drinking the wrong things, we also suffer.

Jesus uses this metaphor to explain our need for His righteousness – our soul hungers and thirsts. The food we need for our souls is truth and righteousness. When we give ourselves a steady diet of righteousness, He will satisfy us. If we ignore the hunger, we become spiritually weak.

When Ezekiel was commissioned by God to be a prophet for Israel, he was given a vision in which he was fed a scroll of God’s wisdom and it tasted as sweet as honey. So, it is the same with God’s Word for us. If we feed upon His wisdom, He will satisfy our souls.

The result of feeding on His righteousness is that we will then want to get to know Him better as we pray.

George Muller (1805-1898) who started 117 schools and gave Christian education to over 120K children relied entirely on prayer to sustain his ministry. He received between $2.0-2.5M entirely through private prayer without telling others of his requests to God. He affirmed that he read through the Bible about 200 times, 100 which were on his knees. He testified that in his lifetime 50,000 prayers were answered. He learned early on that before he prayed, he would read and meditate on the Bible first before spending time in prayer.

George Muller was certainly one that hungered and thirsted for righteousness.