Are you satisfied?
This Morning I was watching television and flipping through the channels. I had one of the channels catch my eye, it was a preacher and I listened to his message and it really struck me. He was talking about seeking first the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33). Many times we are seeking answers to circumstances instead of seeking God’s Kingdom. I went into my office and began to read Luke 8:11-15 among many other verses. It really challenged me and my mind set. Life can be crowded and busy, to put Christ first is very heard because it takes patients and time. All I need is Christ, nothing else truely matters in life in comparison to Him. Lord forgive me of worring about, and being so consumed with life I forget how You are everything I am looking for. Today, take a moment and spend some time with Christ. –Pastor Shawn–
on May 22, 2009 on 7:48 pm
Just a guess, but I’d say most of the time we are going on circumstances instead of the word. We practice some things as Christians such as tithing based on the word. We tithe on the basis of “seeking first his kingdom’s” way of doing things, seedtime & harvest. We would never tithe if we looked at circumstances. So some of the kingdom practices I already do as a Christian, I need to be more mindful of why I do them. But unless we have a majority of our life lived according to kingdom practices in the word, we are living according to circumstances. And even worse, basing our decisions on our emotional reaction to circumstances. I don’t think Jesus wants me to withdraw from the world, afterall, he pointed out the clever manager who cheated his boss before he got laid off!