To treasure anything other than Jesus is to live completely contrary to your design. And you know that when you force something, like a tool, to do something contrary to its design, you end up ruining both that appliance and the object you were trying to fix. Jesus doesn’t want this for us. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:19-24, Heavenly Treasure appeared first on Sunfield.

A person who believes the gospel is not surprised at the difficulties of life, and is not outraged that these things happen to him because he knows that he deserves far worse. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:13, Do Not Lead Us Into Temptation appeared first on Sunfield.

If you hope to maintain even the semblance of a relationship with other people, weak and sinful as they are, you’ve got to figure out how to forgive them. More than that, because you are one of those weak and sinful people yourself, you are (even without realizing it) counting on other people to forgive you. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:12, Forgive Us Our Debts appeared first on Sunfield.

When we realize that the person we’re praying to is a heavenly father, we must also remember that we are his earthly kids and like any kid, don’t always ask for what’s best for us. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:11, Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread appeared first on Sunfield.

What makes obedience a challenge is that God is not looking for slow, coerced obedience — he’s looking for quick, joyous, spontaneous obedience that flows from our hearts. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:10, Thy Will Be Done appeared first on Sunfield.

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We want to run our own lives. Until we see ourselves as pretenders to the throne of our hearts, God’s reign will not hold sway. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:10, Thy Kingdom Come appeared first on Sunfield.

So Jesus again does what we could never do; he hallows God’s name for us. But this doesn’t mean that we are off the hook. We pray that in our lives and in the world, God’s great name would be the most sacred thing in the universe, that he would be what all people value most supremely. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:9, Hallowed Be Thy Name appeared first on Sunfield.

Jesus was forsaken so that you and I will never have to be. The one time Jesus did not pray “my Father” is the very moment that he made it possible for you to come to God saying “Abba.” Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:8-9, Our Father appeared first on Sunfield.

Christianity is about the heart. That even if we were to take away every single command, every single spiritual discipline off the list, our hearts would still find a way to live for the eyes of people rather than the eyes of God. Stephen Saucier The post Matthew 6:16-18, Fasting From the Heart appeared first on Sunfield.