Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. –
Matthew 6:33 (NLT)
Jesus tells us… Do not be overwhelmed by the clutter in your life. By “clutter,” I’m not just talking about all that stuff under your bed. I’m including all those endless little chores that you need to do sometimes, but not necessarily now. For instance, you told your friend you would download that song for her. And your bike tires really need airing up. All those little tasks will eat up as much time as you give them. So, instead of trying to do everything at once, choose the chores that really need to be done today. Then let the rest of them slip to the back of your mind, so that I can be in the front of it.
Jesus concludes… Remember, your real goal in this life is not to check everything off a to-do list. It is to live close to Me. Seek My Face all throughout this day. Let My Presence clear away the clutter in your mind, and flood you with My Peace.
Matthew 6:33; Proverbs 16:3
Footnotes Matthew 6:33 To “seek first his kingdom and his righteousness” means to put God first in your life, to fill your thoughts with his desires, to use his character as your life’s pattern, and to keep on implementing his kingdom values on earth. What is really important to you? People, objects, goals, and other desires all compete for priority. Any of these can quickly become most important to you if you don’t actively choose to give God first place in every area of your life. In Jesus’ kingdom, worrying about daily needs leaves us empty. But maintaining a good relationship whith him and loving others give us all these benefits as by products.
Passage Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
Footnotes Proverbs 16:3 There are different ways to fail to commit whatever we do to the Lord. Some people do it only superficially. They say a project is being done for the Lord, but in reality, they are doing it for themselves. Others give God initial control of their project, only to take back control the moment things stop going the way they expect. Still others commit a task fully to the Lord but put forth no effort themselves, and then they wonder why they do not succeed. We must maintain a delicate balance—trusting God as if everything depended on him, while working as if everything depended on us. Think of a specific effort in which you are involved right now. Have you committed it to the Lord from start to finish?
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“Hold fast to the Bible,” wrote Ulysses S. Grant on June 6, 1872, “as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.”
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, addressing the Long Island Bible Society just weeks before being thrust into the presidency by the assassination of William McKinley, said, “A very large number of people tend to forget that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally—I do not mean figuratively, I mean literally—impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.”
“In regard to this Great Book,” wrote Abraham Lincoln in a letter dated September 7, 1864, “I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.”
The Bible is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path; when it burns low, our culture grows dark. The best way to keep America strong is to know her history, to honor her roots, to preserve her legacy, and to cherish the eternal God who, in His providence, placed this continent between two shimmering seas, and who, in His goodness, provided a Book that became her moral and intellectual foundation: the Holy Bible.
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