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"But seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Matthew 6:33
Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. "Seek first the kingdom of God." We argue in exactly the opposite way, even the most spiritually-minded of us - "But I must live; I must make so much money; I must be clothed; I must be fed." The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God, but how we are to fit ourselves to live. Jesus reverses the order: Get rightly related to God first, maintain that as the great care of your life, and never put the concern of your care on the other th ngs."Take no thought for your life. . . ." Our Lord points out the utter unreasonableness from His standpoint of being so anxious over the means of living. Jesus is not saying that the man who takes thought for nothing is blessed - that man is a fool. Jesus taught that a disciple has to make his relationship to God the dominating concentration of his life, and to be carefully careless about every thing else in comparison to that. Jesus is saying - "Don't make the ruling factor of your life what you shall eat and what you shall drink, but be concentrated absolutely on God." Some people are careless over what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what they wear, and they look as they have no business to look; they are careless about their earthly affairs, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the great care of the life is to put the relationship to God first, and everything else second.
It is one of the severest disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.
By Oswald Chambers
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I am being so spoiled...but I could get used to it
two mornings in a row, Mr Sunshine puts all the canines out, fixes the chairs on the deck and gets the coffee going
All I have to do is get up and imbibe caffeine...see...he's pretty smart LOL! also, I'm comatose without my coffee fix
supposed to get up in the 70's today...I'm gardening, he's painting and all is good in our little corner of the world!
should look just like this when we are finished....
two mornings in a row, Mr Sunshine puts all the canines out, fixes the chairs on the deck and gets the coffee going
All I have to do is get up and imbibe caffeine...see...he's pretty smart LOL! also, I'm comatose without my coffee fix
supposed to get up in the 70's today...I'm gardening, he's painting and all is good in our little corner of the world!
should look just like this when we are finished....
Happy Saturday!
Later today, we are having a cook out with the youth. I always worry kids won't show up to the events the leaders plan. In past events, only a few show up. But a good number showed up for a lock in we had a month ago.
I hope they show up today. I feel like a failure when they don't :/
Later today, we are having a cook out with the youth. I always worry kids won't show up to the events the leaders plan. In past events, only a few show up. But a good number showed up for a lock in we had a month ago.
I hope they show up today. I feel like a failure when they don't :/
"That they all may be one; as you, Father, art in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us."
John 17:21
If you are going through a solitary way, read John 17, it will explain exactly why you are where you are - Jesus has prayed that you may be one with the Father as He is. Are you helping God to answer that prayer, or have you some other end for your life? Since you became a disciple you cannot be as independent as you used to be.The purpose of God is not to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God, and this is revealed in John 17. Th ere is one prayer God must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus - "that they may be one, even as We are One." Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?
God is not concerned about our plans; He does not say - Do you want to go through this bereavement; this upset? He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, nobler men and women; or they are making us more captious and fault-finding, more insistent upon our own way. The things that happen either make us fiends, or they make us saints; it depends entirely upon the relationship we are in to God. If we say - "Thy will be done," we get the consolation of John 17, the consolation of knowing that our Father is working according to His own wisdom. When we understand what God is after we will not get mean and cynical. Jesus has prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far off it, and yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him, because Jesus has prayed that we may be
By Oswald Chambers
