Seek God

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