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Episode 4 - Knowing God by Loving Him
So in Matthew 6:33 when Jesus tells the crowds to continually “seek first the Kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all these things will be added to you,” what is he saying?
Is Jesus offering a new way to keep our instinctive value for personal security above all else? Or is He teaching us to practice ways of life rooted in strong love for God and others? Will we live freely and forever in God’s abundant world by joining His own way of ruling the world according to His wisdom? Or will we try to rule according to our own wisdom.
Humans trust their own perspective on how the world should work more than they trust God’s wisdom. The Biblical story tells us that humanity will be tempted to secure life in ways that might make sense from certain (limited) perspectives, but when those ways disregard God’s instruction, humans always end up bringing harm to creation and one another.
Jesus describes two worlds: one where humans anxiously secure their lives according to their preferences and personal perspectives, and do whatever it takes to serve the self and do things our way, and another world where humans freely live according to God's wisdom and provision, a world where every person trusts that God ultimately gives people everything they need for life and blesses their sacrifices. In this episode we lay out how through knowing God we should selflessly let ourselves go into trust and seek God as our ultimate guide as an act of love. With this we’ll stop competing. We’ll stop fretting about others’ and our own approval. We’ll stop exhausting ourselves to secure a future we cannot control and actually in turn make the best decision to set ourselves up for the best future and life. The more we practice the ways of Jesus and His Kingdom, the more we enter a kind of freedom that helps us live in an eternal peace and life of blessing.
Take it from us as we conclude, seek God as your guide and let it change your life for the better, let us follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ and follow His lead. - The Bible Project Team and Living Against the Grain Podcast. *Verse to conclude: Matthew 6:25-34
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By Living Against the GrainSo in Matthew 6:33 when Jesus tells the crowds to continually “seek first the Kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all these things will be added to you,” what is he saying?
Is Jesus offering a new way to keep our instinctive value for personal security above all else? Or is He teaching us to practice ways of life rooted in strong love for God and others? Will we live freely and forever in God’s abundant world by joining His own way of ruling the world according to His wisdom? Or will we try to rule according to our own wisdom.
Humans trust their own perspective on how the world should work more than they trust God’s wisdom. The Biblical story tells us that humanity will be tempted to secure life in ways that might make sense from certain (limited) perspectives, but when those ways disregard God’s instruction, humans always end up bringing harm to creation and one another.
Jesus describes two worlds: one where humans anxiously secure their lives according to their preferences and personal perspectives, and do whatever it takes to serve the self and do things our way, and another world where humans freely live according to God's wisdom and provision, a world where every person trusts that God ultimately gives people everything they need for life and blesses their sacrifices. In this episode we lay out how through knowing God we should selflessly let ourselves go into trust and seek God as our ultimate guide as an act of love. With this we’ll stop competing. We’ll stop fretting about others’ and our own approval. We’ll stop exhausting ourselves to secure a future we cannot control and actually in turn make the best decision to set ourselves up for the best future and life. The more we practice the ways of Jesus and His Kingdom, the more we enter a kind of freedom that helps us live in an eternal peace and life of blessing.
Take it from us as we conclude, seek God as your guide and let it change your life for the better, let us follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ and follow His lead. - The Bible Project Team and Living Against the Grain Podcast. *Verse to conclude: Matthew 6:25-34