Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you —Matthew 6:33
When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. “. . . seek first the kingdom of God . . . .” Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; I must make a certain amount of 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 going to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.
“. . . do not worry about your life. . .” (Matthew 6:25). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed— no, that person is a fool. But Jesus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that. In essence, Jesus was saying, “Don’t make food and drink the controlling factor of your life, but be focused absolutely on God.” Some people are careless about what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what they wear, having no business looking the way they do; they are careless with their earthly matters, and God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the greatest concern of life is to place our relationship with God first, and everything else second.
It is one of the most difficult, yet critical, disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into absolute harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.
信心的神聖推論
你們要先求他的國和他的義，這些東西都要加給你們了。 （太六33）
我們一聽到耶穌這句話，會覺得是極度革命性的，是前所未聞的論調。耶穌說要[先求神的國]，我們的理論則剛好相反；就是最體貼聖靈的人也會說：[我要生活呀，我一定要賺這麼多的錢；一定要有衣有食才行。 ]可見我們一生最關注的，不是神的國，而是怎樣謀生過活。耶穌卻把次序倒轉過來；你當先與神建立良好的關係，當作人生當務之急，而千萬別把注意力轉移到其他事物之上。 [不要為生命憂慮……]主指出我們為生活而掛慮，是完全沒有理由的。他不是說什麼都不思想的人是有福的，因這樣的人是愚不可及。耶穌是教導門徒要把與神的關係，視作生命的重心，而其他事則視作等閒。耶穌這裡的意思是：別把吃什麼喝什麼作為你生命的決定因素，只要專注在神身上。有些人由於不注意飲食，而招致損害；有些人則不注意衣著，而不修邊幅；他們都忽略地上的事，神卻要他們自己承擔。耶穌的意思是要把與神的關係，放在人生的首位，其他一切都屬次要。
讓聖靈把耶穌這番話的教訓，溶在我們裡面，這是信徒生命中最嚴格的訓練。
祈禱◆主啊，今天早上，求你使我與那些奇異的景象和聲音隔絕；將我從那些聯繫著現今和最近的東西中解脫出來，以你的靈完完全全地充滿這天。
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