Matthew 6:19-34)…..19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 “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? 26 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? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 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?31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The real priority in our life should not be where we are going to get wealth, our food, our clothing, and our shelter. Instead, the real priority should be to seek God’s kingdom first and God’s righteousness first. Seeking the Lord as if all you wanted in life the best that God has. But we need to prepare ourselves to seek the Lord (Ezra 7:10). We need the right attitude toward seeking the Lord (Deuteronomy 4:29)
Notice – (Matthew 6:33) – where the Lord shows us the priority of seeking Him. “Seek first the kingdom of God,” first means first. What is the kingdom of God? (Romans 14:17) (Colossians 1:13). It is seeking His kingdom, His righteousness above our own possessions and wealth (Luke 18:18-23). Is Christ and what He has for you worth it? Is it worth it, more than family, friends, and everything else (Matthew 19:27-30) (Luke 14:25-27)? Is Christ and what He has for you worth it?
And all His righteousness! We should not be looking to our own righteousness to save us (Philippians 3:9) (Titus 3:4-5). We need the righteousness of Christ (Philippians 3:7-14). The wonderful news is that the believer has the righteousness of Christ imputed to them (2 Corinthians 5:21). What a treasure we have in Christ, what a wonderful thing that has been given to us. Because if you have His righteousness, you have everything (1 Corinthians 1:30).
Seeking the Lord also involves you and me seeking out the will of God. Broadly defined, the kingdom of God is the rule or reign of God via His will. Jesus could use “kingdom” and “will” in synonymous parallelism (Matthew 6:10), so we must seek out what is God’s will for us, then live it out in our lives (John 4:34) (John6:38).
What you get out of your walk with Christ is a result of the effort you put into it. God has always demanded that He come first – (Exodus 13:2) (Exodus 23:19) (Proverbs 3:9)