Thought For Today – December 7
Take Care of God's Business And He Will
Take Care Of Ours.
If we will take care of God's
business, he will take care of ours. Jesus said: “Seek ye first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall
be added unto you.” Matthew 6: 33.
We who are Christians ought to be
so wrapped up in the things of God, and be so busy in our ministry
for him that we have no time to be anxious for our food, or clothing,
or any of our needs. As Christians we ought to be living in complete
reverse of the way that most people in the world live. Most people
spend about ninety nine percent of their time seeking for food,
clothing, and shelter, and things that they think will make them
happy and comfortable, and if they have about one percent of their
time left, they offer it to God.
This is why there is so much
unhappiness and discontent in the world. God's plan for our lives is
for us to spend one hundred percent of our time in loving and serving
him, and being so wrapped up in heavenly and Godly things that we
have very little time to think about our food, clothing, and shelter,
and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that this is one of the most
difficult passages of scripture to believe and obey, and yet it is
the secret and key to successful living and power with God.
Someone related to me some time
ago, whether or not it is true I do not know, that when Thomas Edison
was working on some of his great inventions, he would work in a room
without windows and without clocks, and he would be so engrossed in
his work that he would lose all awareness of time and forget to eat
and sleep for days. It was said that when he got married, on his
wedding day they were missing him during his wedding reception, and
finally they found him locked in his work shop working on one of his
great inventions. As I said earlier, I do not know if this story is
true, but if it is, it is a good illustration as to how we
Christians ought to be engrossed in the business of the Lord.
God wants us to seek him first and
put him first to the point that we are so engrossed in him and the
work he has given us to do that we actually forget about all our
needs and lose consciousness of our selves.
When a person becomes a child of
God he is baptized with the Holy Spirit and he becomes a member of
the body of Christ, and God gives him a special gift to be used in
his service to enhance his kingdom. It is our responsibility to find
out what that special gift is and develop it and use it, and become
engrossed in it for the furtherance of the kingdom of Christ.
“Having then gifts differing
according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us
wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching, or he
that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with
simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy,
with cheerfulness.” Romans 12 : 6-8.
Whatever we do we should do it
with all our might and to the glory of God. When we are so busy
doing God's work that we forget about the food we need, and the
clothes we need, and the comforts that we think we need and would
like, then we are really believing and trusting God's word and
relying on him that our “heavenly Father knoweth that we have need
of all these things” God honors our faith and all our needs will
automatically be met without us having to spend too much time
worrying about them, when we could be spending this time serving God.
If we will diligently take care of God's business, then we can be
sure he will take care of ours.
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