“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33
In keeping with my last blog about growing spiritually, I think this verse and preceding ones give us much teaching about how we should continue to live/grow in Christ. Unfortunately, we fall into Satan’s trap of thinking that we must focus on how we are going to take care of ourselves to live, and shortchange our focus on the kingdom of God. Oswald Chambers says it best in his devotional book, MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST, “Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed–no, that person is a fool. But Jesus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that.”
Right now, I am keeping this verse foremost in my mind. I want God to teach me how to apply it in my own life. I want to stop worrying and start trusting/seeking Him. Don’t you?
