Seek Ye First

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

            “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

(Matthew 6:33-34 ESV)

I  was thinking this morning about how awesome it is when I get to spend time with God.  I mean there are times when it seems like God isn’t close bye anymore, but realistically it is usually when I have been focusing my time on something else instead of Him. The verse today sums how every Christian in the world should live.  We are to seek Him first,  that means over our family, our jobs, our friends, our money, anything that gets in front of God.  The great thing  is,  if we do what He has asked us to do, then  He will handle everything else.

It’s like if I told you that in order for you to live to be 150, all you have to do is eat a particular thing, or take a particular pill.  Therefore if you died at 50 it would obviously be because you didn’t follow the directions you were given.  Same thing with Christians, God had given us a specific set of directions that will allow us to have a fulfilling and peaceful life.  “Seeking Him” not “seeking self”, is the one thing that a Christian can do that will basically put everything else in our lives in order.  You see the next verse is basically telling us that we shouldn’t worry about all of these small life and large life stresses that we do.  In my opinion, anti-depressants are being prescribed at an all time high because Christians are not seeking God’s will.  They are seeking their own will.

If we worry about things too much, isn’t it almost like we are saying,” God I love you and believe in you, but I really don’t think you can handle my problems”.  And God is sitting there telling you, if you would just focus your life on Me and My will for your life, then you would understand that nothing can happen that I didn’t know was going to happen.  You can’t surprise God.

My kids are running around like wild animals, so I’m sorry if today’s message was not as organized as it usually is.

  People, focus your Whole life on God and ask Him to show you what He wants you to do.  With everything I’ve been going through it would be really easy to start living for Steve again, but I promise, the supernatural peace that God has given me lately definitely “surpasses all understanding”.

Please pray and ask God to reveal His will for your life.  He will never have you do something you are not prepared to do.  He will equip you.  How can you know this?  You are reading His will for my life, and as you can see, I’m not a great writer.  I never could write, but now I write a weekly blog that has been published into a book, which will be out in less than 2 weeks.  How awesome is God!