MAKE GOD YOUR HIGHEST PRIORITY

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE FOR WEDNESDAY, 1ST MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: MAKE GOD YOUR HIGHEST PRIORITY

MEMORIZE: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33.

SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 6:25-34.

“25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 "Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 "and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 "Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” 

EXPOSITION:

Priority is the status established in order of importance or urgency. We place of our request and our schedules base based on priority. On earth, we place great importance on our daily basic needs: What to eat, clothes to wear, shelter to live, work to do to meet those needs and numerous others. But many so believe in their human strength to achieve their dreams without God’s involvement. Jesus Christ in our today’s study is telling us the importance of placing our priorities right. Jesus asked, “"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” Matthew 6:26.

Which of you, the wisest, the strongest of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature? (Mt 6:27) to his age, so some; but the measure of a cubit denotes it to be meant of the stature, and the age at longest is but a span, Ps 39:5. Let us consider, 

Thoughtfulness for the morrow is needless; Let the morrow take thought for the things of itself. If wants and troubles be renewed with the day, there are aids and provisions renewed likewise; compassions, that are new every morning, Lamentation 3:22, 23 says “It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”.  The saints have a Friend that is their arm every morning, and gives out fresh supplies daily (Isa 33:2 “O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.”), according as the business of every day requires (Ezra 3:4 “They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;”), and so he keeps his people in constant dependence upon him. Let us refer it therefore to the morrow's strength, to do the morrow's work, and bear the morrow's burden. To-morrow, and the things of it, will be provided for without us; why need we thus anxiously care for that which is so wisely cared for already? This does not forbid a prudent foresight, and preparation accordingly, but a perplexing solicitude, and a prepossession of difficulties and calamities, which may perhaps never come, or if they do, may be easily borne, and the evil of them guarded against. The meaning is, let us mind present duty, and then leave events to God; do the work of the day in its day, and then let tomorrow bring its work along with it. 

The conclusion of this whole matter then is, that it is the will and command of the Lord Jesus, that his disciples should not be their own tormentors, nor make their passage through this world more dark and unpleasant, by their apprehension of troubles, than God has made it by the troubles themselves. By our daily prayers we may procure strength to bear us up under our daily troubles, and to arm us against the temptations that attend them, and then let none of these things move us.

"Seek this thing first – the Kingdom of God and its righteousness; first in your days: let the morning of thy youth be dedicated to God. Wisdom must be sought early; it is good beginning betimes to be religious. And all other good things needed in life shall be added as you need them, because he loves you and cares for you – “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7.

ACTION POINT: Seek the first every day – which is God. Let your waking thoughts be of God. Let this be our principle, to do that first which is most needful, and let him that is the First, have the first.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Joshua 4-6.

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