Matthew 6:25-34 - Pt 2: Seek first the Kingdom of God
If you could be anywhere, doing anything right now, where would you be? Why? What does your answer say about your vision of the ‘good life’? Are there any correlations between that vision and the things that cause you to feel anxious or worried?
Read Matthew 6:25-34. How many times does Jesus use a term like ‘anxious’ or ‘worry’? What does this kind of worry/anxiety look like practically in life? What other actions would you associate with the idea?
Look again at verses 32-33. Here Jesus shifts from anxious/worry language to ‘seek’ language. What is the relationship between seeking and being anxious?
In v32, Jesus says, “The Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them all.” What is Jesus referring to with the words, ‘all these things’? If you were to make an ‘all these things’ list for yourself, what would be on it?
This morning Robb said, “anxiety is a symptom of seeking.” What does that mean? What does the ‘ringing bell’ of anxiety tell us about what’s going on in our hearts?
CS Lewis says, “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.” Practically speaking, what are some ways we can do this? How do we keep our hearts calibrated toward God?