God, My 7-11? (Part 4)

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

We have discovered that to seek the Kingdom of God is to seek Jesus Christ  Now we need the Holy Spirit's guidance into how to seek Jesus Christ.

Let us visit with Apostle Paul in Phillipians 3:13-14 where he said "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Those verses summarized what he was doing in the preceding verses which I would enjoin us to read because there, he gives a step by step guide on how to seek Jesus Christ and what to expect to find or experience along the way.

Then he very soberly and humbly states that he still doesn't consider himself to have taken hold of Jesus Christ, but continues in the quest so to do. I like to think of this as drinking water.  Just because you got your thirst quenched and your system hydrated yesterday with fresh water doesn't mean you can run the rest of your earthly life without further thirsting or drinking.  Everyday, you thirst for, and everyday you seek out water to drink so you can stay hydrated and alive.  People who do not drink enough water daily know what happens.  They get impacted and eventually destroy their vital organs and die.

It is the same with seeking Jesus, not only is it a daily quest, but you cannot rely on the find of yesterday, you cannot live on the glory or revelation of yesterday.  At the Mount of Transfiguration, the disciples were so satiated with the glory revealed to them that they thought it couldn't get better and were ready to build tabernacles and park there.  But no, they had to press forward.  We have to press forward.  Looking back is dangerous because it takes you back.  What do we have to look back to?  The children of Israel wouldn't leave Egypt be, they kept looking back and romanticizing their experience there!  And so they all save Joshua and Caleb did not make it out of the wilderness.  Lot's wife kept looking back and we know what happened to her.

This looking back of which we speak is a heart condition where you worship God Almighty with your lips but your heart is far from Him, your heart has not been turned toward Him.  We must turn our hearts fully to Him and then by His Spirit, He will enable us to worship and serve Him in Spirit and in truth.

In verse 3 of Phillipians 3, Paul enjoins that we must have no confidence in the flesh, ours or anyone else's.  Our confidence must be in Jesus Christ. Our hope must be in Him because as we saw yesterday, our existence is in Him! (Acts 17:28)

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me today to leave those things of yesterday there, both my achievements and disappointments.  Help me to press forward today in my quest to apprehend your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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