Thought For Today - September 22
Take Care of God's Business - By: Robert A. Searles
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 to 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
consciousness 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 be automatically 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 you can
be sure he will take good care of ours
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