How can pursuing righteousness make joy?
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This document discusses how pursuing righteousness can lead to joy. It defines righteousness as pursuing goodness and unrighteousness as pursuing evil. It states that a righteous life is necessary to attain goodness. It then quotes passages from the Bible encouraging pursuing God's kingdom and righteousness first before worrying about basic needs, as God will provide those. It concludes by advising the reader to make themselves a perfect object for God by creating a circuit of giving and receiving true love within themselves.
How can pursuing righteousness make joy?
- 1. How Can Pursuing Righteousness Make Joy?
- 2. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Matthew 5:6
- 3. Righteousness refers to that quality in a person which leads him to pursue goodness and further its purpose. Unrighteousness refers to that quality in a person which leads him to pursue evil and further its satanic purpose. A righteous life is absolutely necessary for the attainment of goodness. EDP Ch. 1 Section 4.3.3
- 4. So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:31-33
- 5. If you thirst for true love but there is nobody to give it to you, then you must make yourself the perfect object to God. Create within yourself that circuit of give and take with true love. Father Moon, 10th January 1982
- 6. Create integrated (not segregated) space for God to fill