Luke 12:31 Seek First The Kingdom
As for you, do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not worry anymore. All the nations of the world seek for these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these other things will be given you besides.
I want to revisit Jesus’ last works in this passage. “Instead, seek his kingdom, and these other things will be given you besides.” This has been an important scripture in my life and a favorite of one of my sisters. We have discussed it many times. I kind of picture us in this culture as being on a ladder, always climbing and even when you think you have arrived somewhere, seeing that there is another rung above you. My health and wealth put me fairly far up the ladder, certainly there are many below me. What I am seeing is that any who are on this ladder, who have bought into this climb are only seeking after everlasting climbing, with no arrival, no satisfaction. Jesus says let it be the kingdom that we seek – where status, wealth, etc. do not matter. In that blessed equilibrium we are all loved and cared for by God through each other. Amen.
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