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TEAM TALK
Having God’s “Unreasonable Faith”
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. —
Matthew 6:33
When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that
human ears have ever heard. “…seek first the kingdom of God….” Even the most spiritually-minded of us
argue the exact opposite, saying, “But I must live; I must make a certain amount of money; I must be
clothed; I must be fed.” The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God but how we are going
to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with
God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking
care of the other things of life.
“…do not worry about your life…” (Matthew 6:25). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is
absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the
person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed— no, that person is a fool. But Je-
sus did teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and
to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that. In essence, Jesus was saying,
“Don’t make food and drink the controlling factor of your life, but be focused absolutely on God.” Some
people are careless about what they eat and drink, and they suffer for it; they are careless about what
they wear, having no business looking the way they do; they are careless with their earthly matters, and
God holds them responsible. Jesus is saying that the greatest concern of life is to place our relationship
with God first, and everything else second.
It is one of the most difficult, yet critical, disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring
us into absolute harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
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