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Seek
First The Kingdom
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“But seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to
you.” Matthew 6:33 NKJV
Here is
a double argument against the sin of thoughtfulness - take no thought for your
life, the life of the body for, you have greater and better things to take
thought about, the life of your soul, your eternal happiness that is the one
thing needful (Luke 10:42), about which you should employ your thoughts,
and which is commonly neglected in those hearts wherein worldly cares have the
ascendant.
If we
were but more careful to please God, and to work out our own salvation, we
should be less solicitous to please ourselves, and work out an estate in the
world.
Thoughtfulness
for our souls in the most effectual cure of thoughtfulness for the world.
You
have a surer and easier, a safer and more compendious way to obtain the
necessaries of this life, than by carking, and caring, and fretting about them
and that is, by seeking first the kingdom of God, and making religion your
business: say not that this is the way to starve, no, it is the way to be well
provided for, even in this world.
Observe here, The great duty required: it is the sum and
substance of our whole duty: "Seek first the kingdom of God, mind
religion as your great and principle concern."
Our
duty is to seek to desire, pursue, and aim at these things it is a word that
has in it much of the constitution of the new covenant in favor of us though we
have not attained, but in many things fail and come short, sincere seeking (a
careful concern and an earnest endeavor) is accepted.
Now
observe, First, The object of this seeking The kingdom of God, and his
righteousness we must mind heaven as our end, and holiness as our way.
"Seek the comforts of the kingdom of grace and glory as
your felicity. Aim at the kingdom of heaven press towards it give diligence to
make it sure resolve not to take up short of it seek for this glory, honour,
and immortality prefer heaven and heavenly blessings far before earth and earthly
delights."
We make
nothing of our religion, if we do not make heaven of it.
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And with the happiness of this kingdom, seek the righteousness of it God's righteousness, the righteousness which he requires to be wrought in us, and wrought by us, such as exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees we must follow peace and holiness, Hebrews 12:14.
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And with the happiness of this kingdom, seek the righteousness of it God's righteousness, the righteousness which he requires to be wrought in us, and wrought by us, such as exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees we must follow peace and holiness, Hebrews 12:14.
Secondly,
The order of it. Seek first the kingdom of God.
Let
your care for your souls and another world take the place of all other cares:
and let all the concerns of this life be made subordinate to those of the life
to come: we must seek the things of Christ more than our own things and if
every they come in competition, we must remember to which we are to give the
preference.
"Seek these things first, first in thy days: let the
morning of thy youth be dedicated to God. Wisdom must be sought early it is
good beginning betimes to be religious. Seek the first every day let waking
thoughts be of God."
Let
this be our principle, to do that first which is most needful, and let him that
is the First, have the first.
The
gracious promise annexed all these things, the necessary supports of life,
shall be added unto you shall be given over and above so it is in the margin.
Godliness
has the promise of the life that now is, 1 Timothy 4:8.
Solomon
asked wisdom, and had that and other things added to him, 2
Chronicles 1:11,12.
O what
a blessed change would it make in our hearts and lives, did we but firmly
believe this truth, that the best way to be comfortably provided for in this
world, is to be most intent upon another world!
We then
begin at the right end of our work, when we begin with God.
If we
give diligence to make sure to ourselves the kingdom of God and the
righteousness thereof, as to all the things of this life, Jehovah-Jireh -- the
Lord will provide as much of them as he sees good for us, and more we would not
wish for.
Have we
trusted in him for the portion of our inheritance at our end, and shall we not
trust him for the portion of our cup, in the way to it?
God's
Israel were not only brought to Canaan at last, but had their charges borne
through the wilderness.
O that
we were more thoughtful about the things that are not seen, that are eternal,
and then the less thoughtful we should be, and the less thoughtful we should
need to be, about the things that are seen, that are temporal!
Also
regard not your stuff, Genesis 45:20,23. - Matthew Henry
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