What is your day going to be like today? What has it been like?
In our current sermons on the book of Acts, we recently thought about the early church in Acts 2:42-47. It was a remarkable community, and has been an inspiration to Christians through the ages. (If you want to listen to the talk, you can find it at here.) Their shared life together and their service of other people were attractive and provoked people to ask what it was about them that was different. The result? "The Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved".
Jesus said "Seek first the kingdom of God" (Matthew 6:33). What does that look like?
I have been very challenged recently about whether I am really seeking God's kingdom, his rule over every part of my life. Most of the time it's not the lack of intention on my part, but the number of other intentions which crowd it out – I allow busy-ness to take over, the 'tyranny of the urgent' rather than the pursuit of the important.
This is an important choice : am I living 'in Christ'? Am I walking through the day with him? Am I focusing on worries and cares, or is my gaze on God? Is my busy-ness driving the day, or is the matrix of my life a mission to be following God in everything?
Tim Norman
Read the Bible in a year: Proverbs 26:13-22, Obadiah 1:1-21, Hebrews 2:1-18
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