John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Jesus knew why He was born. He knew His mission. He knew the results of His work.

Few of us can say as much. My mother had an opinion of why I was born. I was no accident. I was left feeling that if my father had not been drafted into world war two, I never would have been born. While my mother intended on making me feel special, it did the opposite.

What is my purpose in life if I am nothing more than an accident of history? I didn’t feel special even if I was special in my mother’s eyes or my father’s for that matter. Nothing in how they raised me gave me any sense of purpose.

Many years later, after accepting Christ as my Lord, God intervened in my life with power and purpose. His hand stopped me from being killed by an eighteen wheeler running a stop light. I knew with every fiber of my being that it was God who spared my life.

Why did God spare me when so many others die?

I can only answer that question as a matter of spiritual service. The answer, if any, can only be found in God’s will. Do I know what that will is every moment of the day? No. I am lucky enough at times to see His will enacted and every time it turns out to be what He did, not me.

Some think that we will answer for what we did for Jesus in the end. I believe when that day comes, we will get to see what Jesus did thru us whether we knew it or not.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Philippians 3:8-10 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Reading from these verses we might gain insight into the use of hunger and thirst as it pertains to righteousness. While hunger and thirst are words we relate to in matters of the flesh, it is flesh that consumes and requires replenishment. Not so in the Spirit and His righteousness, it does not consume but is rather a never ending source of righteousness and more.

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

While the cross put an end of the law for righteousness sake, Christ is more than just righteousness.