I am blessed in that it is unusual that I spend an entire long day on business. Yesterday I had to be in Houston for a 4 p.m. meeting. With travel there and back it was a long day with everything focused on a one hour meeting. As I spent most of the day driving, I was listening to a book, but essentially the entire day was focused on that one hour meeting.
It did make me think how important our focus is. If our focus is right so will our priorities be right. I wonder if I will ever get my priorities straight. Sometimes I think I am seeking first the Kingdom, and the next minute I know that I am not. In those times that I do seek Him first, I have peace and joy and when I don’t I have worry and concern. It seems I would make the connection and keep Him first always. But I don’t.
When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. “. . . seek first the kingdom of God . . . .” Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; Imust make a certain amount of 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 going to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.
It’s all a matter of focus. We can focus on Him or on our next meeting, job priority or earthly concern. It seems obvious we should look to the one who controls it all.
Be blessed.
Nick
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