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Podcast: Bret Hammond
Episode: Blessed are the Meek; Amos 8:11-12
Description: There was a commercial on TV when I was a child. I don't remember what they were selling, but it was a scene of an old well pump on a farm and a voice reciting Matthew 5:6, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Whenever the commercial came on, I would think, "I don't know what righteousness is, but it must be hard work. You're hungry and thirsty after you're done doing it!"
I was right, just not for the reasons my young mind thought; righteousness is exhausting! Seeking God's "right rule" for...