Examine Your Motives

Matthew 6:25-33 New King James Version (NKJV)

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?"

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?"

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture taken from the New King James Version?. Copyright ? 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

What motivates you? What energizes your imagination and activates your soul? Are you paralyzed by the fear that you will not be able to provide the necessities of life for yourself and your family? Are you enslaved by the need to move forward economically or to build earthly security?

 God cares for His own, for birds and lilies, and people who seek Him. His kingdom and His righteousness are of such great value that nothing else compares with them.

 Our task is to check in with what motivates us as we make important decisions and view the realities of life. By keeping first things first, we can eliminate the need to juggle multiple priorities or to fret over things that ultimately perish.