Thought for the Week 26th March 2017

3.         Joining Jesus in His Mission – ‘Seek’

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  (Matt 7:7,8)

To those who want to join Jesus in His mission and live a life as a ‘living witness’ to the transforming power of Jesus – we need SUPERnatural help.   Jesus tells us to ask for this and then he adds ‘Seek and you will find’ because ‘the one who seeks finds’.

By telling us to ‘seek’ Jesus is pointing out that Living for Him is something that we need to look for not just expect God to do without our cooperation.  We need to go looking for it!

In the previous chapter, Jesus said:

6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Seeking first means that living for Him becomes a priority, Jesus is not just one aspect of our life He is our life.

This means letting God change us rather than getting stuck and not making progress – which is where many of us are happy to settle – we stop seeking first His Kingdom because we allow other things to be our priority and the result is that we appear no different to people who don’t know Jesus and we have no witness.

This week, will you seek FIRST God’s Kingdom and ask the Holy Spirit to work in your life to bring about the change that He desires?