If you are still hungering and thirsting for righteousness then you may not be saved yet, but are still a "seeker" after God. When a person is converted to Christ, his sin is laid on Jesus and God clothes the converted person with the righteousness of Christ. This means that the person is totally righteous before God. Note this Scripture:
"He who did not sin was made sin for us that we may become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). At conversion there is an exchange of sin and righteousness. Jesus takes our sin, paying the price and taking the punishment of it, and we are gifted with His righteousness. Therefore, there is no further hungering for righteousness. The words of Jesus that He spoke to the unconverted Jews of His time that those who hunger for righteousness will be filled. is totally fulfilled and completed the moment a person receives Christ and is born again. Then there is no more hungering. Why continue to hunger when you are made completely righteous before God in Christ?
A converted Christian is filled with the godhead bodily. He is filled with the Spirit, God lives inside of Him. How much more of God do we need? Do you fit that profile, or are you still a "seeker" after God with Christian conversion still in your future? (just stirring the pot to encourage you to search the scriptures more closely about these issues).
Red above, I understand what you're saying, but technically incorrect, according to the text. There are about 7 "in Him" verses in chapter 2, Paul is showing how in Him, all is complete.
Col 2:9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
My dear brother and friend, how are you? I hope well. I think your understanding is incomplete. Yes, we are complete in Him and that is precisely why we are called to hunger for more and more of Him, and long to be free of any vestiges of the old man we walked in for so long. Thank God there are acid tests left to us by our Father to point us in the right directionand insure that we are not led into error by the enemy of our souls. Here is one, and it is a biggie.
"He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous."
When it crushes us that we still love the world, that self still ultimately rules over our choices, that we do not love others as we love ourselves, that we who are supposed to be dead to sin continue to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season while we have no real driving hunger for Jesus to live through us, keeping us from falling, delivering us from evil, only then we will see the stone rolled away from our hearts and begin to experience the fullness of the new life Christ bought for us as overcomers of the world, the flesh and the devil himself. Like Lazurus, we too have been raised from the dead, yet find ourselves still trapped in the grave, bound tightly by our grave clothes. But praise God. a voice from heaven is saying "Come forth!". And we WILL respond.
Jim is spot on target here, and the target is our conscience, long ago hardened by the sins we think have no bearing on us now that we are saved. Yes, Frog, we are indeed in Him, but that truth will become a testimonial against us lest we find repentance and begin to hunger for what Jesus clearly promised us..... to walk FREE INDEED with sin under our feet.
Like Samson, we who once were mighty men of valor have had our spiritual eyes burnt out, while we remain content to blindly grind out religious corn to the amusement of the enemy. But thank God, a deep longing is beginning to well up within the hearts of His children, a desperation to be REALLY free as Jesus intended, saying
"Let not the enemy rule over thy people any longer to bring them to reproach." Awake, children of God, to how good our God really is. The old nature we have long believed is who we are is not us at all, but our unbelief has allowed the enemy to fool us. That time is coming to a close, and quickly. We are about to mount up with wings as eagles, and soon thereafter, we will all fly away. Then.... praise God for all eternity...we will hunger and thirst no more.
Blessings,
Gideon