Seek First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

Jesus exhorts us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and not to worry about earthly things, as the Gentiles do. Then God will give us the earthly things we need, in addition to the heavenly. .

We should seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, so that through His word and the working of the Holy Spirit we may understand what God’s will is in our circumstances of life, and then do it.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.” . We can choose whom we will serve, but we can only serve one Lord and do one will. In the kingdom of God, the will of God is done. No other will can remain standing there.

God wants to give us His heavenly treasures, and we can gather them in our circumstances of life by not doing our own will, but instead doing the will of God. It is, for example, His will that we also be diligent in earthly matters and work with our own hands. . We are to do this heartily as to the Lord. That is our part. No matter how our circumstances may appear, we should not worry, because we know that our heavenly Father guides all things for our good and provides for us. That is His part. After all, He knows far better than we do what we need.

We still need this exhortation every day to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, so that we can keep and gain more of these heavenly treasures, and not begin to love the earthly things God has blessed us with. We should continue to seek first the kingdom of God and to love God. After all, we shall inherit the kingdom of God and all things together with Jesus.

Vito Založnik