I am a Jesus pusher!!! Congratulations! You are poor in spirit. That is the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. It is an expression of total helplessness. This drives us to “mourning” (the second Beatitude). It is a recognition and admission of our condition of helplessness. In this response, Jesus, our total Resource, is able to fill us. The combination of our helplessness and His Person becomes the Kingdom of God. I am not the Kingdom; He is not the Kingdom; “we” are the Kingdom! Who He is becomes visible in us. Meekness (the third Beatitude) becomes our experience.
These three Beatitudes whelm up within the child of the Kingdom. A passionate, undying hunger and thirst for righteousness (the fourth Beatitude) becomes the appetite of those in the Kingdom. The Christian is not one who constantly tries to control his appetite for sin. The state of the Kingdom is not resisting, but embracing. We are not swimming upstream; He attracts us with the wonder of His love! We hunger and thirst for Him as a lover for his beloved. As the stomach longs for food, so my soul longs for Him. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God (Psalms 42:1). He fills my hunger for Him, which creates more hunger for Him. He is takes me to new levels of relationship. I am a filled Jesus pusher!!!