AMONG the blessings pronounced by our Saviour was this: “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” To hunger and thirst means more than simply to desire; it means to have that intense longing of soul so aptly expressed by the psalmist in these words: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” Ps. 42:1, 2. This is the language of the most intense longing. The panting deer upon the sun-scorched and barren plain, has but one impulse, namely, to reach water. The famished traveler in the desert waste has but one thought,—O, that I might find water. And so must he feel who seeks God. When in sore distress, the patriarch Job exclaimed in the anguish of his soul: “O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.” These scriptures give some idea of what the man feels who has real longings of soul for God and for the things that pertain to salvation. And he who has these controlling desires, these all-absorbing longings, will not be disappointed,—“he shall,” says the word of God, “be filled.”