Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of December
Verses:
Matt. 6:32, 34 “For all these things the Gentiles are anxiously seeking. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things….Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow.”
Excerpts:
As we are fulfilling our duty, we should not do anything for the sake of our anxiety, because we have a divine life that knows no anxiety. And we have an almighty and all-inclusive heavenly Father who takes care of us in every way. Today’s world is filled with anxiety, but the kingdom people should not be anxious about anything. Concerning morality, we have the life and nature of our Father within us to enable us to fulfill the highest moral requirements. Concerning our living, we have the heavenly Father Himself to take care of us. Although we must fulfill our duty, we should have no anxiety. Like the children of Israel who had enough to live on and who gave certain portions away for various purposes, we also should have a harvest and be willing to give a certain amount away for various purposes. Eventually, all we give will be laid up in the heavenly bank, and all our riches will be there.
This also is related to our daily growth in life. Both sloppiness and anxiety will delay your growth in life. Everyone who grows in life is diligent and industrious. Of course, this diligence and industriousness will yield a reward, and some material riches will come to you. All these riches must be used not for your anxiety but for your giving. The only kind of person who grows in life is one who is diligent yet who does not use his surplus for his anxiety. We labor and fulfill our duty, but we have no anxiety. This is the proper way to grow in the Father’s life. (Life-study of Matthew, msg. 22)
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