FAITH CAPSULE: What you desire is what you seek after to become of you.
Matthew 4
One that desires to live heaven on the heart will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Jesus declares it, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
The whole matter that counts and works perfectly in life is to fear God by keeping His commandments. God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God and to keep His commandments is with the desire to seek God.
Listen to the word of God, let it settles in your heart to fear God. 1 Samuel 12:24 buttresses, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.”
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
God has done great things, doing more, which is the reason to have the desire for God, with heart.
God only sees and moves by the action rooted in the heart of all. God saw Samuel with his attempt to make the brother of David as the king and spoke to him: “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
What do you desire?
As an acclaimed believer, search for yourself to know if you have the desire for God.
Jesus made fishermen with the desire to follow Him. Matthew 4:19 records, “Then He said to them, “Follow me and, I will make you fishers of men.”
Serving God is following Him.
Following Him is a sacrifice to give up all for Him.
To follow Him is not to be a spectator but to learn, to become a fisher of men.
The request of Jesus from man to follow Him does not identify Him as a slave master but as a saving master.
Matthew 19:28 states the reward for all that follows Him, “…Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
With fear for God, serve Him fully to experience the fullness of the reward for following God.
Your work before God is rooted in your fear for God. Ecclesiastes 12:14 warns, “For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”
The works of God call to be living life by the word of God, to fear Him.
Jesus was questioned about the work for God in John 6:28-29, “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
Desire to live life before God, seek, serve unswervingly with fear for Him, He treasures.
Prayer for today: Tell God your desire to live life before Him.