Written by Julie Inu Umoro
Matthew 6:31-32
[31] Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
[32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
It's a bright and beautiful Monday, and the first working day of this week. Thank You Father Lord for life again today in Jesus name. Amen.
There is something that dropped on my mind as I read the 2 Scriptural references above.
Firstly in this reference, God is admonishing us not to worry about what to eat, drink and wear. He said that He knows that we need them. Continuing, God said that the Gentiles are seeking after what to eat, drink, and wear.
Who are the Gentiles?
They were those then who were not Jewish and often hostile to the Israelites. They did not believe in God. So they could conviniently be called Unbelievers.
So, in this passage the Lord Jesus was teaching dependance on God, who is aɓle to supply all our needs according to His riches in glory. He encourages His followers to seek on how to please and do Gods will first.
He discourages His followers from godless actions like the Unbelievers do, which is always seeking to satisfy themselves first. THIS leads to greed and covetousness. He told them that because He created them and so knows their every need.
Again, people seek what is so very important to them. The Gentiles seek after carnal things so much so as if their lives depended on those things. This was why the Lord told His followers that if they seek God and His kingdom first, God wiĺl come into their lives with all that they need, because He owns the earth and all in it.
Psalms 24vs1.
These Gentiles believe in several other gods which they worship but do not believe in the One and only Sovereign God who created the heavens and the earth and all in them.
If you believe in the only true God of the Universe, you will always seek on how to get His attention, please Him, by obeying Him and keeping His commands, and doing His will. As you humble yourself and seek Him in love, whatever is your need, He will meet them.
I got a revelation and that is that the Gentiles can go to any length to get what they want. It is this quest for what to eat, drink and wear that lead some into lying, stealing, envy, fights, wickedness, etc and can even lead them into other crimes like abductions, banditry, assassinations, robberies, rituals, frauds yahoo and so on and so forth.
God our Father who created us says we should not think about what to eat, drink, and wear, for He knows we need them. That's final.
Instead of worrying for food, drinks and clothes, He said, we should seek His kingdom and how to live right, in other words, make God's business your business and He will make your business His business. He created you and so knows us better than we know ourselves.
What it is therefore is that if Unbelievers seek carnal things to satisfy their lust, children of God should seek spiritual things that please God. These are the things thar will speak for them in eternity.
If you are a true child of God, don't worry about anything, but just seek the things of God's Kingdom first as they are of Eternal value.
Beloved, the truth is that no one can seek God on their own, except the Holy Spirit empowers and quickesns such a person.
I Corinthians 12vs3.
Whoever you are and wherever you are, Repent now of your sins because we have all sinned. Confess and forsake your sins. Let the Blood that Jesus shed on that Cross wash you clean of all your sins so that your name can be written in the Book of Life. When this is in place, you are sure that whenever He calls, one is sure of eternity with Him.
God alone is my Source of health, love, peace, joy and strength.
MEMORY VERSE
1 Corinthians 12:3
[3] Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
PRAYERS
My Father and my God, please release on me fresh grace to cleave unto You in righteousness in Jesus name. Amen.
DAILY BIBLE READING.
Matthew 6vs31-34.
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