This idea of needing to eat, drink, and be clothed is not new. And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. Isaiah 32:18. The other thing that is not mentioned in these verses is where we are to lay our heads and God knows this as well. These 4 are the basic things we need for survival and what we seek after to live a good life. Many foolish people try to seek these things without seeking first the Kingdom. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. So, if we are instructed to seek first the Kingdom and we do not, are we not foolish for not doing so.
We all want a nice house, good food, and great drinks that taste good but seeking after those things alone is a form of greed and the Bible warns us against that in Luke 12:15, And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. God knows we need these things, and we will provide for his people. If you have read your Bible, you know that God helped His people time and time again in the Old and in the New Testaments. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Luke 12:7. If the hairs in our head are numbered what more proof do you need that God cares and knows what we need. Let's go further on this point and look at Luke 12:30, For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. This verse proves that God knows what we need. But to have all these things we need to first seek ye the Kingdom.
Without God we have nothing and In Him, we have all things. or in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; Colossians 1:16. If go on to verse 17 it says, and he is before all things, and in him all things consist. In the New American Standard Bible, it says Hold together. I like the way it is put in the Amplified Bible, And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.] Since God know all things and all things were created in Him. He knows what we need and will provide for His people, but we first have to seek His Kingdom.
We need to First seek the Kingdom not because God does not know what we need but to give him what is due to God before he will give us what we need. Have a blessed day, we will continue more on this tomorrow!!!!
All Bible verses taken from the ASV, AMP
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