Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We are picking up with day four of our devotion on the Bible

lab titled The Upside Down Kingdom.

There's a link to that in the description if you

want to follow along and as always I'm going to read the scripture that I'm also

going to pick with the Devo. The scripture is Matthew chapter 5 or 6 and it says

this, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they

shall be satisfied. The devotion is titled Taste and See and it says this all of us know what hunger feels like. As famished babies we cried and as ravenous adults we may get irritable or as they say, hangary. We also know the kind of hunger that compels us to sacrifice and achieve,

a hunger that occupies our thoughts, shapes our vision, and gives rise to our ambitions.

Over time, this hunger shapes our identity. As physicians

often say we are what we eat, an axiom that is equally true in the spiritual

realm. Yaw, this is about to hit.

Oh, I can see where it's going.

When we maintain a diet of selfish ambition, duplicity, materialism, and infidelity, we inevitably

personify these qualities, like the Food Act who consumes the entire canister of Pringles and then moves on to the tub of Breyer's ice cream,

we can slide from moral compromise into deeper patterns of self-destruction, including greed, lust, envy, and other so-called deadly

sins.

Philosophy James K. Smith emphasizes the necessity of rehabituating our hungers that is submitting our

deepest longings and cravings to the supremacy of Christ. We are called to hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Here's a devotional insight.

The righteousness that we are to seek is God redeeming grace, a grace that blesses humanity where

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