Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Matt 6:33 (MSG)
PART 5 – Maybe You Will
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Keep on seeking, don’t stop. Look for God, love and light in all that you experience in life and through everything that you do. Be led by the eternal quest to seek the Kingdom of God in the here and now. A Kingdom not of this world but in this world through you and I, through Jesus blood that drenched the ground and left a beautiful stain upon it.
There is so much more to your life than the car you drive, the house you live in, the clothes you wear… the food you eat. Those things are an expression of you, they don’t define you. Above all, seek the Kingdom of God. Search out the divine purpose of your self. Discover just how much more vivid life is when you connect with the divine rather than stack up a material Kingdom of your own.
Maybe you’ll have an awesome house, maybe you’ll drive nice cars, maybe people will know your name and applaud your efforts. Maybe they’ll sing your songs and read your words. Maybe you’ll wear nice clothes, go to award shows, maybe you’ll eat expensive meals and buy lots of gifts for friends, maybe your work will be artistic or academic… who knows what your days will hold? Maybe these things, some of them, or hardly any of them will happen. And that does not determine your value or success in this world.
You will find meaning when you seek God in all that comes your way and in everything you put your hand to. Seek him at the deepest level of yourself. You don’t have to peel yourself away from your dreams and desires to seek God out. Find him in the moments, in the mediocre, the glamorous, the hopeful, the gut wrenching, the heartache, the beautiful, ugly, hard, joyful moments… seek him, look for him and keep on finding him… Then it won’t matter how much you have or not, you will find something that you can’t contain in a box, bank account, house or safe.
Francis of Assisi prayed this prayer, which fits ‘seeking the Kingdom' beautifully:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
May you seek God in all that is and may you find and keep on finding grace, peace and love.
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