Word for Today: What is the Most Important Thing?
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
My friends Candy and Ziggy will remember ten years ago when I would
walk around Digital Equipment, joking about M.I.T. No, not the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the Most Important Thing.
Another friend, Stephen Sha, used to refer to making a quick trip to
the Men's Room just before going to lunch as the "Most Important
Thing". I saw that as a great opportunity to share my faith, and that
certainly has contributed to my long held desire to write and share
with others about Jesus Christ and what He has done for me.
You see, God has seen fit to account for my deficiencies. Though I
did not deserve it, even before I sought God, He sought me. He also
secured the means of reaching me. He paid the price - in full - for
the things lacking in my life. God calls those things that are
lacking sin - not meeting the standard of God.
What is the standard of God? It is sinless perfection. Well, if any
one of us strives for that, we know, at least if we are being honest,
that we will not only miss that, we will be FAR off the mark!
How then, can we possibly have any hope at all in anything? God.
Hope in God. How? God came to earth as a real man, with flesh and
bone, and was subject to all of the same limitations that each of us
face each day. He had one big advantage over us. He was (and is) the
sinless Son of the Living God. He is the Way, the Truth, and the
Life. No one can come to God the Father except through Jesus Christ
the Son. But in Him, we have life, forgiveness of sins, fullness of
life, an everlasting hope, all the stuff that counts - and lasts.
When we seek Him first, we will find Him, and we will also find that
elusive thing called "peace", the peace of God, which far surpasses
all previous understanding.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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May 21, 2006
DIVINE REASONINGS OF FAITH
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you.
Matthew 6:33
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=mt+6:33&sr=1
Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most
revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. "Seek ye first
the kingdom of God." We argue in exactly the opposite way, even the
most spiritually-minded of us - "But I must live; I must make so much
money; I must be clothed; I must be fed." The great concern of our
lives is not the kingdom of God, but how we are to fit ourselves to
live. Jesus reverses the order: Get rightly related to God first,
maintain that as the great care of your life, and never put the
concern of your care on the other things.
"Take no thought for your life. . . ." Our Lord points out the utter
unreasonableness from His standpoint of being so anxious over the
means of living. Jesus is not saying that the man who takes thought
for nothing is blessed - that man is a fool. Jesus taught that a
disciple has to make his relationship to God the dominating
concentration of his life, and to be carefully careless about every
thing else in comparison to that. Jesus is saying - "Don't make the
ruling factor of your life what you shall eat and what you shall
drink, but be concentrated absolutely on God." Some people are
careless over what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they
are careless about what they wear, and they look as they have no
business to look; they are careless about their earthly affairs, and
God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the great care of
the life is to put the relationship to God first, and everything else
second.
It is one of the severest disciplines of the Christian life to allow
the Holy Spirit to bring us into harmony with the teaching of Jesus
in these verses.
MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST - by Oswald Chambers //
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http://www.heartlight.org/devotionals/my_utmost /
This devotional is copyright Oswald Chambers Publications,
< http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk >.
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Brian Masinick, masinick at yahoo dot com
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/masinick/
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