A "SEEKING FIRST" FAMILY

Are we a "seeking first" family? I'm sure you can repeat Matthew 6:33 by heart, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."  We know the Scripture well, but do we act it out?

I think that if we are a "seeking first" family, we'll begin the day seeking God, don't you? Not only individually, but as a family. How paramount it is to start the day with FAMILY devotions, gathering the family together to hear the living Words of God and to pour out our hearts to Him. Of course, we'll want to end the day this way too. If we are too busy to come together as a family morning and evening, we cannot call ourselves a "seeking first" family. There must be other things we are seeking first.

The word "first" in the Greek means "firstly in time, place, order, and importance." Therefore He will have first place with our time, first place in our home, first place in the order of our day, and He will be our first thought in everything we do.

We'll seek His righteousness instead of the blaring secularism that pours through the TV and questionable movies. We'll seek His truth in order to discern the deceptions of this world. We'll seek His wisdom and knowledge instead of leaning on our own understanding and we'll seek to fill our home and our children's hearts with the "exceeding great and precious" truths of His Word (Colossians 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:4).

Love from Nancy Campbell