Seek God's Kingdom First

 

 

 

^{Matthew 6: 24-34} 

²⁴ “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Do Not Worry

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[a]?

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

What would we do with all the extra time we'd gain if we learned ti eliminate worrying  from our lives?  Would we be able to see creation in a new light and behold the beauty all around us? Would we have more time to spend with God in prayer, or with one another?  What would we do with a peaceful heart and a head foll of positive thoughts? Our days would be full of opportunities for prayerful praise and loving service to others.  Today's Gospel reminds us of those good things and invites us to  God's ways,  to  put God's kingdom firs, and set aside our petty frets and woes.  May we learn to walk in the sandals of God's loving care, not in the  boots of our worries.

Bro. Rene