Kingdom and Righteousness of God

"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you"

I must confess that I had taken the verse out of context too many a times. I have not given it a second thought and had taken it for granted that it simply means to seek God and everything will fall into place.

The Lord's Spirit opened my eyes tonight to understand better what these Words really mean.
First of all, the "Kingdom of God" as many knows is not so much a place or location. It is where the rule of God is. It is when the submission of hearts of men to God is established. The Kingdom of God is right HERE! Here where I stand WHEN I submit completely to God my life, my thoughts, my actions and my entire being. It is when I commit wholeheartedly the best AND the worst of me to God, knowing that there is nothing that I can do to be more holy, nor anything that I can do to make God love me less. Where and when I submit to God prostrated, there the Kingdom of God is.

What about "His righteousness"? I believe that His righteousness describes God's character. Whatever God deems to be holy and right.

So, to seek first God's Kingdom and righteousness is to seek to completely submit to God's will, ie: seek to do God's will and all the things that God deems right; and stay clear of the things that God despises.

I write this so that I will remember it the next time I forget. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. My brain cannot retain all that the Spirit is giving my heart and head, but thankfully God also provided the computer and internet to supplement my lacking. God is Great!!

Dave the Saved

Blessed 2010

A very Happy and Blessed 2010 to everyone!!

New year often marks the beginning of a lot of things. People tend to think of fresh starts, putting behind past mistakes and look forward to newer and better things to come.
Thankfully for me, God has given me a similar hope, but more so because each and every failure I make, I can INSTANTLY wipe clean and start all over because Christ has promised that He would have removed the stains of my mistakes from God. His sacrifice on earth and on the cross has "cleanse" me from all my errors that otherwise would have condemned me in more ways than one.

In retrospect, the year 2009 reflections leads me to think and count the blessings instead of the problems and troubles that has passed. World economy has begun to recover, and I believe so have lives been restored in the year that passed. The iPhone 3G was introduced(although I haven't got one) and Michael Schumacher announced that he will be back in the race next season of F1. That's good news, isn't it?

Life went on with relative good health for me and the people around me. Praise the Lord.

I just pray that in this coming 12 months, churches around the globe will be restored and the spiritual leaders revived to walk with God. It is rather disappointing when church leaders, pastors and such people of God fall. Of course, they are still human. But I can understand how easily one could do God's work, and forget to walk with God.

World peace, environment recovery, end violence...I suppose those are what we would continue to pray for in the year to come.

But we can all certainly look forward to God's promise of a renewed spirit and the working of the Spirit to enable us to serve Him better this year. And I press on to the goal of serving our Lord. Only pray for me that I might persist and have the Word be a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.