“Seeking first!”

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. (John 6:63 ESV)

The Bible contains the very Word of God! There is life in that Word, that precious Bible, that’s food for your soul. It’s absolutely essential to the growth of your soul. If you don’t have time for it, then your soul’s going to starve and you’re certainly going to be a dwarf spiritually. And prayer is communion with God. Without prayer you walk unempowered, in your own strength and wisdom.

God’s Word says, “Without Me, ye can do nothing.” On the other hand, it says, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” That strength comes only through prayer and the reading of God’s Word. You can hardly depend for that strength needed on a weak little hurried verse, or a little tiny prayer just before you hop into bed half asleep and sort of dazed. You couldn’t call that “seeking first!”

Trivial temporal things so often are put first, and God and His Word crowded into a secondary place. And if that’s the case, all of life is just thrown out of balance, and the result is only disharmony and disruption and confusion.

I wonder, are the great realities of life in the proper perspective in your life? Have you a sense of values? Or do you let little trivialities and material things come before the reading of God’s Word and prayer? [1]

Prayer: Our Father in heaven, we pray that Thou wilt help us to have a keen sense of values, and the realization that we are put here to prepare for eternity and not for time! —That our citizenship is in heaven. God help us to understand. Amen

[1] Anchor Sense of Values