God, My 7-11? (Part 3)

Our Text:
Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

Today we will consider what it means to "seek first" the Kingdom of God.

The seeking doesn't just happen to you, neither is it natural. We need always remember that the things of the Spirit, our nature will always war against, or resist. This is where our intellect comes into play for we have to make a list of our priorities, and then rearrange them placing the apprehension of Jesus on the top.

Should we understand who Jesus is, and what He represents in our lives, we'd understand that all we need or could ever desire for a wholesome existence is bound up in Him. He it is "who fills all in all (for in that body lives the full measure of Him who makes everything complete, and who fills everything everywhere with Himself)" Ephesians 1:23 (AMP)

All we could ever need is bound up in Him because:
1. He is head over all, meaning all things have been put under His feet (made subject to Him), and we, the Church, His body, are joined with Him in dominion over all things made subject to Him. Ephesians 1:22
2. Since He purchased us with His own blood, He has full ownership and therefore all our supplies can only rightly come from Him and nowhere else. Anything we receive apart from Him can only lead to trouble and is an attempt to separate us from Him. Such cannot destroy or change Him, but most certainly will hurt and cause us, His body, to be disjointed.
3. It is in Him that we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28.  This simply means that our existence is in Him and none other."Without Him we have no life, nor that motion which every inanimate nature displays, nor even existence itself." (F B Meyer)


Having understood that not only is He is the Creator of all things created, and that only to Him does all power belong, but that He does have dominion over all, we need to see that we are placed beside Him to exercise and enjoy that dominion with Him.

Let us attempt to fully grasp this all filling attribute and dominion of Jesus over all, and we will be well on our way to understanding what this seeking is, of the Kingdom of God.

That which you have dominion over, that which is subject to you, you do not pursue, it comes to you.  Here is where we run into trouble. We have been pursuing the wrong objects!  We should be pursuing Jesus Christ for in Him lies all we need and they are also subject to Him. Being subject to Him means they flow where He determines.  Get Jesus, and you get all. It is that simple. 

This is why He said "and all these things shall be added to you."  The Kingdom of God is Jesus Christ.  All things are bound up in Him. Seek Jesus Christ and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, please forgive me for trying to get a hold of all that which is bound up in Jesus Christ outside of Him. By your Holy Spirit, help me now to seek and to apprehend Jesus Christ Himself and I know that all will be added to me.  Help me, Merciful God to desire Jesus and Him alone. Amen.

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