seek FIRST

Don’t worry now.

Sometimes there are these little thoughts that enter my mind… ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Are you ready?’ ‘Can you really do that?’ ‘What makes you so sure?’ ‘Are you good enough?’

A good friend gave me some advice yesterday, “Take it one day at a time.” There has been something that I have been worrying about lately. Honesty, let’s just say I have been thinking about something a lot – almost too much. When I get something on my mind, it is there and hard for me to focus on anything else. I was talking to my friend about this certain subject that has been on my mind lately & when she gave me that advice… one day at a time, she was pretty much saying, “Emily, don’t worry!!”

So later that night – I looked to see what scripture had to say and if it backed up what my friend said… Wouldn’t you know that I looked up the word ‘seek’ in the concordance and the first verse I went to was Matthew 6:33 (Which is funny because that was the title of my youth Wednesday night service at Rosedale Baptist Church. We met at 6:33 p.m.). Matthew 6:33-34 says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you. Therefore, don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

And the next verse that I went to was Deuteronomy 4:29, which says, “But from there, you will search for the LORD your God and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

So what is the moral of the story? Focus, seek and find strength in the LORD. Not just when you are troubled, or when things seem difficult – or great for that matter. But see FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

So that is my goal. To seek, and not just seek once in a while.. But seek Him with all my heart and all my soul. Because His faithful love is better than life.