mathhew 6:32-34

mathhew 6:32-34

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.



Matthew 6:32-34







What am I to do with my life? Who am I to marry? Which college should I go to? What is God's will for my life?



These questions can be very confusing in life when trying to seek God's will. I've known some people who are a little mystical when trying to find Gods will. For example, someone wakes up at 6:03 and she thinks she should marry Bobby because he's 6'3. People have done some crazy things when trying to discover God's will for their life.



So how do we know what God's will is? Tell me which is better, trusting in your own ability to discern God's will or trusting in God's ability to lead? I'm going to go for the later. My heart is deceitful and no one can know it; not even I. So if I trust in the former I trust in something that is by nature deceitful.



So how does one trust in God's ability to lead? Follow his commands. Do everything he tells you. If God says, "obey your parents in the Lord." You obey your parents even if it seems stupid to you. If you do then God promises, "It will go well with you so that you may enjoy long life on the earth." God says not to be easily angered, so follow this command. God commands us to do many things. Let us be engulfed in following God and his commands.



If I do these things then I trust that God will lead me. If I am to marry then God will show me. The Spirit of God will lead me. All we must be worried about is "seeking his kingdom and his righteousness." Know that righteousness means to be declared right before God. To do this we must repent and believe.



The one of the many greatest evidences that you have repented is that you are continuing to be broken over your sin today and repent when you sin. Repenting means to say your sorry and to have the full intention to never do it again (I'm sure there is a better definition).



The one of the many greatest evidences that you believe is whether you bear fruit or not. The message in the book of James is that if you have faith then you will have good deeds. Not the other way around. It is the very motives of your deeds that change. The motives for your good deeds is to please and follow God. If you do good things in order to go to heaven then your motives are for you. But if you repent and believe then you are saved because you look outside of yourself onto Jesus! You are saved not because of you, but because of Christ!

Grace and Peace

C C