I get these devotional thoughts every day. Sometimes I read them. This one I read and found it helpful, esp. in thinking about marriage. Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Would this marriage be a Kingdom builder?
Builder. Language fails. For so much of my life I’ve had an activist perspective on what it means to seek first God’s Kingdom, but I’m realizing more and more that it’s not just what we do for and in the Kingdom, but who we are. I know that often marriage and parenting, especially stay-at-home mothering, are relentless, a crucible even, and that it can feel like one is stuck and not doing much “for the Kingdom.” But faithfulness in the mundane and laborious leads to holiness, and Kingdom things are birthed in the unlikeliest of places.
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Subject: GC - September 12 - Money Values
God Calling
Money Values
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. - Matthew 6:33
If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. - Matthew 6:22
The eye of the soul is the will. If your one desire is My Kingdom, to find that Kingdom, to serve that Kingdom, then truly shall your whole body be full of light.
When you are told to seek first the Kingdom of God, the first step is to secure that your will is for that Kingdom. A single eye to God's glory. Desiring nothing less than that His Kingdom come. Seeking in all things the advance of His Kingdom.
Know no values but Spiritual values. No profit but that of Spiritual gain. Seek in all things His Kingdom first.
Only seek material gain when that gain will mean a gain for My Kingdom. Get away from money values altogether. Walk with Me. Learn of Me. Talk to Me. Here lies your true happiness.
But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Luke 12:31
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