Daily Grace At
JESUS` Feet
January 8,
2010
Seek First! Success Next!
Those who seek the
LORD lack no good thing –
Psalm 34:10
During my
college days in Chennai, I had an
opportunity to visit an unbelieving friend of mine who
was admitted in a
hospital for a surgical procedure. One of his cheeks was swollen and so
surgery
is needed to make necessary corrections so both sides of his face look
symmetrical.
Since, I
had several opportunities before to talk to him about Jesus Christ; I
asked him
if I may pray for him. I also suggested him to seek God and believe in
the
healing
power of Jesus Christ. He replied, “First let your God heal me and then
I will
believe.”
Today, when
God urges us first to seek Him and believe
Him to see miracles, we wanted to see miracles to believe him. It is
like I need All 'A's now, and will take tests later. Someone
quoted,
“Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I
am
visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.”
David
talks about how he did not lack in
anything when He trusted God for his living. Lion is the King of forest
and has
every authority and power to get its needs across the table. The idea
is in no
way a Lion can go hungry, but even if it may for some unforeseen
reasons, people
who seek God will not lack any good thing (Psalm 34:10). God will not
withhold a
blessing to a believer who seeks him on a daily and constant basis.
Jesus
himself emphasizes us not to worry about the essentials of life, like
what to
eat, what to drink, what to wear, and other things we run after. Jesus
says
that your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. What Jesus
essentially
says is that there is a God who cares for you more than you care for
yourself. But
when you have God as your first priority, you get it all. Jesus says in
Matthew
6:33, “Seek the Kingdom
of God above
all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you
need (NLT).
Psalm 34:10 and Matthew 6:33 coveys the same idea.
Are
you making God your priority? Or are you giving
importance to all other life events and keep God’s agenda under “If time
permits” category. If you make God a first priority, He will
make you His first
priority.
George
Fredrick Müller (1805 –1898), a famous
Missionary read the Bible through one hundred times with increasing
delight.
Once he said, “I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good
time
over the Word of God. Friends often say, ‘I have so much to do, so many
people
to see, I cannot find time for Scripture study. Perhaps there are not
many who
have more to do than I. For more than
half a
century I have never known one day when I had not more business than I
could
get through. For four years I have had annually about 30, 000 letters,
and most
of these have passed through my own hands. Then, as pastor of a church
with
1200 believers, great has been my care. Besides, I have had charge of
five
immense orphanages; also, at my publishing depot, the printing and
circulating
of millions of tracts, books, and Bilble; but I have always made it a
rule
never to begin work until I have had a good season with God and His
Word. The
blessings I have received has been wonderful.” (Credits: Counter
Attack, Jay
Carty, Multnomah Press, 1988).
We saw the New Testament version of Psalm 34:10 in
Matthew 6:33 and we also saw George Muller’s version of both these
verses from
his own life. What will be your version of Psalm 34:10 and Matthew
6:33? Let us
ask God to filter each day through His filter of Grace by investing
time in His
presence as we begin each new day!
So Seek
Him, See Him, and Serve Him!
Prayer:
Lord, make me a person who will always
prioritize You when I make a “To Do” list for the day.
May you
have a God-centered Day!