Truth- take no thought for tomorrow

Mat 5:2  And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying…

Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Seek first.

If you are seeking something first then it stands to reason that you will seek something next, a second thing, a third thing, and so on.

Our Savior is teaching that we must SEEK FIRST the KINGDOM of GOD and GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.

We've become consumed with seeking so many things before we seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. We let our lives become consumed by our worries and concerns. Just because we cannot fathom how we will be fed, or clothed, or even how we will drink doesn't mean God does not.  We come back to that very old sin that Satan instigated in heaven as he chose to sin- we want to be LIKE GOD! We want to know.   Satan tempted Eve seeding her thoughts with just this same thing.  Eat the forbidden fruit and you will know good and evil, you will be like God. 

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

KNOWING. You will KNOW Eve, you will know all there is to know- LIKE GOD. 

Satan LIED.

We are not like gods, our eyes are not opened in any good way at all, and our knowledge of good and evil has NOT made us like gods.  

GOD knows our every need and here's the catch, the biggest,  the only catch - if you want to call it that- GOD knows our every need and our ONLY real need is SALVATION, and that salvation offers us the kingdom of God in eternity with Him and His Son, without SIN.  This is our ONLY real need.   We think it's all this other stuff, we get caught up in the cares of this life so much it excludes our only real need- salvation.

Right now you might be shaking your head vehemently and saying I can't let my children starve! My children have needs!  I can't stop needing to provide for my family!  But ask yourself this, PLEASE, ask yourself this…  do your children, does your family need salvation?  If we ALL need salvation first and foremost that includes our families. 

No, I'm NOT definitely NOT advocating that anyone stop providing or trying to provide for their families physical needs.  What I am saying is that all the providing in the world will NEVER get you or your children salvation, and this is what we NEED to seek FIRST, and all else after.

We've stopped seeking the kingdom of God first and regulated it to a different level that comes after we've done this, that, and the other thing.

We've decided at some point that if God really is caring for all our needs He'll do it THEN we'll know Him and THEN we'll follow Him and seek Him. 

Let's read these four verses through again:

Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Take no thought for the morrow.

We've already talked about seeking first God's kingdom and this is Christ's TRUTH.

Does this mean we will NEVER say- "What are we going to eat?"   Of course it doesn't. Food doesn't magically appear and it didn't magically appear for Jesus. He went into others houses and was served food. SOMEONE had to have the forth thought to have that food available.  We go to the market, or stores (most of in the U.S.A. go to supermarkets) and we buy food not just for a day but for a few days, a week, or more. To buy such food we are thinking ahead to 'what are we going to eat.'  The same for drink and clothing, we make plans to drink and to buy clothes to wear.  There would be a lot of naked, hungry and very thirsty people around if we were all to just sit around do our jobs, get our pay, and yet never think about buying food, drink, or clothes.  We think about it, and we think about tomorrow, we make plans. Tomorrow I have to do this, tomorrow I have to do that. I have an appointment for tomorrow, etc. We think about these things and it's natural. Very few, if any, people can truly say they never think about what they're going to eat- the truth is they are thinking about it moments before doing it, right? Even if someone else prepared it and set it on a table, before you take that first bite you are thinking about that bite you are going to take.  Very few can say they live in the here and now because the moment they have a thought to do something- they are thinking ahead. You'd be completely immobile if you never thought about what you were going to do. This is taking Jesus' words to such an extreme the entire meaning is gone.

Seek FIRST.  Not SEEK ONLY.

All these thing shall be added unto you-  you will be provided for- YOUR ETERNAL LIFE, YOUR SEEKING ETERNAL LIFE will be provided for even if you are called to walk the walk of starving to death, dying of thirst, or perishing from exposure.  It's NOT our call to make, it's NOT our place to question God's ways.  We could say that God must really love those who are millionaires for supplying them with all they'll ever need in this life, and likewise God must really despise those who are dying of hunger, thirst, and exposure.  

Seek FIRST the kingdom of God and HIS righteousness and we will be provided for.

If we worry about tomorrow we are borrowing trouble. The worry, as we talked about a few days ago, steals our faith.

People have been taught to worry.  We teach our kids to worry.  We teach and have been taught that not worrying gives off the impression of NOT CARING, NOT BEING RESPONSIBLE, NOT TRYING, BEING LAZY, etc. 

Satan has done a number on our FAITH. Satan has hacked away at our faith and will continue to do so as much as he possibly can.

Letting go and letting God- has become something foreign to us in reality. We may mouth the words while we hold on to our secret anxiety, our hidden worry, only NOTHING is hid from our God, nothing.

Please LORD help us to TRUST YOU in ALL THINGS!

Please LORD help us not let worry steal our faith!

Please LORD teach us, open our hearts, our minds, our lives to learn all we need to learn to be YOURS wholly YOURS!

Forgive us because we are so far from being learned pupils.  Forgive us our refusal to learn to live Your word. Forgive us for NOT seeking FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness!  Help us! Save US!

In Your amazing LOVE!