#002 Seek First the Kingdom of God - 86 Seconds Video Devotional - Gary Wilkerson

We've been looking at Matthew 6, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and he's talked about the beatitudes, the lifestyle that we should live. In the end of this, He says, “Don't worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will have worry about its own things. Sufficient is the day for its own trouble.”

If you're like me, your circumstances have you thinking about a lot of the troubling things in your life. You could be thinking about family crisis. You could be thinking about financial difficulties, health needs, health situations, relational problems. Sufficient is the day for the trouble. What does Jesus say is remedy to the troubles of our circumstances, to concentrate on them, to worry about them, to be anxious about them? Absolutely not! It's the opposite. He says, seek first the Kingdom of God. You're going to have trouble. He doesn't say seeking first the Kingdom of God would release you from trouble, that to live a seeking-first lifestyle is one that absolves you from the problems of life, but what he teaches us is that as we focus on him rather than our circumstances, if we have an internally focused heart after Jesus rather than externally focused, looking to the things that cause trouble and then we're going to get trouble if we look for it. If we look to Jesus, we're going to find peace and joy. Enjoy these 86 seconds of seeking Jesus.