Jesus makes a statement in one of His first sermons:

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled. 
(Matthew 5:6)

I love to eat. As one who began learning his way around the kitchen at the age of 6, I love to cook, and I love to eat what I cook. Few things please me more than to see someone smelling the aroma from the kitchen, and expressing their hunger for what is coming.

God is the same way. He has prepared a table for us, and invites all who hunger and thirst after righteousness to come and be filled. All who are weary and heavy laden with burdens of life can come and find rest for their souls (see Matthew 11:28-30) and a satisfying meal to fill you.

He promises that you will be filled.

Everyone hungers; it is only natural. We may choose to fill our hunger with different foods—junk food or wholesome foods—but we all have a hunger that dissatisfies us until we are filled.

Not all foods are equally nutritious and satisfying, however. Some meals offer healthy nutrition to build health, while others offer a tasty pleasure that ultimately brings disease and harm. Some find lasting contentment by feasting on the goodness of truth while others find temporary reprieve by snacking on the tasty evils that gratify their own selfish desires. I have experienced both. We see this with people who choose to face a hard truth and endure it's consequences, and with people who are quick to believe a lie if it strokes their ego or vindicates their opinions.

Both truth and error, righteousness and unrighteousness, are available for you to eat and drink freely. Do you hunger for the feast, or for the sweet snacks that do not satisfy?

The scriptures offer a fulfilling meal to those who hunger and thirst after righteousness—they will be filled. The promise of being filled is given only to those who hunger for that which can actually satisfy them.

It's a promise.
Are you hungering and thirsting after righteousness?

The Truth will cost you.

Dinners do not always cost money; you cannot buy your way to every table, but it can still cost you in a number of ways.

It will cost you other dinner invitations.

You cannot eat at two separate tables at the same time; to accept the dinner invitation of one host requires you to decline the invitation of the other host. Sitting at the table of Truth to be filled with righteousness will cost you the opportunity to dine with those offering error and the delicacies of unrighteousness.

You cannot eat righteousness with God and devour unrighteousness with devils:

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
(1 Corinthians 10:21)

It will cost you relationships.

Think of someone who’s come out of addiction and is finally walking in sobriety. They don’t suddenly become “too good” for people — but they do know they can’t keep spending Friday nights at the old bar with the old crowd. It’s not personal drama; it’s reality. Sobriety and self-destruction don’t coexist. That’s how righteousness relates to unrighteousness. Light doesn’t bargain with darkness; it displaces it. You don’t “balance” the two — you choose which one you will walk in and forsake the other.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
(2 Corinthians 6:14–18)

When you sit down to feast on unrighteousness in the darkness of deceit, you are not merely “hanging out” — you are taking fellowship with it. That table has nothing in common with the table of righteous truth. The Lord’s table is not a snack you add to a steady diet of the world. To be dinner pals with Deceit is to decline the invitation of Truth. You will lose your seat at one table if you choose to sit at the other. The only real question is: where will you dine?

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(James 4:4)

These are just two things that a dinner can cost you. We will explore others in the course of study here. Count the cost, but I can testify that God's promise is true. He truly fills all those who will come to Him hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
(Psalm 34:8)

Are you hungry?

See more promises of God, coming soon.