Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
It is in this life that our priorities are to be made manifest by the choices we’ll make. Throughout the pandemic, God has been urgently seeking to call our attention to that which matters most in life. Yet, for all of His efforts, many seem to be consumed with temporal interests, just as it was, when Christ first came to this earth. Amid all the hustle and bustle of life, the shepherds and the wise men never lost sight of that which matters most in life.
And even though they too had to work, and pay their mortgage, and send their kids to college, just like everyone else, they never lost sight of what matters most in life, God’s great gift to us in Jesus. Let us therefore take a page out of their experience, and try to refocus our attention on Christ, on what God is now doing for us in the heavenly sanctuary.
And let us seek to understand the prophecies which pertain to the last days of earth’s history, so that we would not be “Troubled” like Herod, and all those who lived in Jerusalem at the time of Christ’s first advent. We will end with a passage of scripture which cautions us against having our priorities mixed up, for at the end of the day after the dust has settled, it will be those who earnestly sought out God’s gift to us, who will be saved eternally.
Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!