KMB God First In The New Year
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This week Bible Way Media has asked us to turn our attention to a theme with the New Year here on “Putting God First” in this new 2023 year. Because of that I would like us to consider some passages today that exemplify that reality we all know but is good to be reminded of. With that in mind let’s read Luke 10:27.
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Putting God first doesn’t get more plain than this teaching of our Lord ans Savior, Jesus the Christ. What motivates us to live godly lives knowing the consequences of such “will lead” to persecution (2 Timothy 3:12)? It’s loving our God with “all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind.”
Secondly, we find that putting God first means putting his kingdom first in our lives as well.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
If we love the Lord our God with our all we will certainly seek his kingdom i.e., the church as our family to help us fight this good fight of faith we are in. The added benefit of this is that our daily needs will be provided for and we will have no need to worry about them (Matthew 6:25-34).
Thirdly, it’s good to be reminded that because we sin, even as Christians (1 John 1:8, 10), we will be in need of a constant renewal of our spiritual being.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
This old sinful world is spiritually challenging on the easiest of days and spiritually draining on the hardest of days. We need to wake up each day willing to “refocus, and renew our spiritual lives” through study, prayer, and worshiping of our God along with fellowshipping our faithful brothers and sisters.
