I’m looking out the window
watching the sun go down and the light slowly fade. Another day is coming to a close. And in just a handful of hours, the dawn will
break again and a new day will begin.
Life.
A continuum of sunrises and
sunsets filled with ever changing moments of joy, sorrow, pain, excitement,
peace, worry, and the list goes on. Life
can get messy. Life can be scary. And I think we all can agree that life can be
hard.
What do we do when our plans
don’t go as planned? What do we do when
there are more bills than money to pay them? What do we do when we, or a loved one, are
told it is cancer? What about the news
channels that drone on and on about our increasingly violent world? Where do we
turn? Or better yet, whom do we turn to?
We turn to God. We seek God.
Jesus tells us in Matthew
6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you.” Starting in Matthew chapter 5, Jesus was teaching
the disciples and those gathered around Him a host of life principles, truths,
and admonitions.
In chapter 6 verse 33, He was
speaking on the subject of worry. Jesus
was teaching the ones gathered around Him back then, as well as us today, to
not worry. To not let our minds focus on
what the day brings or doesn’t bring. To
realize that God knows our needs, both physical and spiritual and He promises
to take care of us.
Jesus gives beautiful
illustrations of the Father’s love, care, and provision to the least of His
creation and explains of how much more value we are to Him than they. And so if God the Father cares so much for the
birds of the air and the flowers in the field, how much more so does He pour
out His love for the ones He created in His own image?
So let us all strive to begin
each day with a single-hearted devotion to God and the desire to seek Him first
in all things.
Dina Pugh
