"For they shall be filled." 

One thing I have noticed in me is a lack of spiritual hunger. There is an increasing attitude of apathy towards spiritual things. Living the gospel is a habit, not a passion. Scripture study is a chore, not a joy. Spiritual promptings are greeted with groans, and not with gratitude. 

I wish to be (as Christ instructed) one of those who "hunger and thirst after righteousness." (Matthew 5:6) I want it to be the main desire of my heart. And I know I can accomplish this, but it will take (as King Benjamin said) a lot of fasting and prayer to overcome the natural man and his earthly passions. 

 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child,submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father. (Mosiah, 3:19)

But what's the blessing? "Blessed are they," promises Christ, "For they shall be filled." (Matthew 5:6)