FAITH CAPSULE: Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life.
Colossians 3:1-17
God is the creator, the One and only God that cannot and should not be disregarded but live life for His glory.
Are you assuming to be seeking God?
Are you a believer by the mouth?
Are you searching for yourself to identify who you are before God?
Are you a believer in truth to the heart?
Believing God is not only by confessing with the mouth but seeking God diligently.
To be seeking God with diligence is the standard by God for all.
God is a jealous God while giving attention is the antidote to gaining the attention of God.
To seek God with diligence is giving attention to God.
What is it that is worth more than seeking God diligently?
Jesus admonishes, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
Seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be the reason for living life.
Seeking outside of God is taking a distance from the presence of God. Seeking besides God is setting self for the wicked world.
Accepting the truth of the word of God is to believe by behaving in the word of God.
Jesus identifies a challenge for believers: “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.” (John 8:45)
Give yourself to the truth of God to put the devil to shame.
A believer with truth lives by the expectation of God.
Have you given your life to the truth of God?
In truth, seek God with all diligence. Jesus is the truth of God, John 14:6 records, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Believing God is behaving the word of God.
In this world of challenges, seek God diligently, and know to set your mind to experience the promise in God.
Paul buttresses, “If then you were raised with Christ; seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:1-2) As a believer, what you seek and set your mind on in the truth of God is what will make you up in the journey of life.
The standard of seeking and setting the mind on things above states: “…seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deuteronomy 4:29)
Consider setting the mind seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
A commitment to seeking God will position man before God that all things are possible.
Prayer for today: Ask that you want to seek God with diligence in all your way of life.