Stop Seeking & Start Enjoying

“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:33 NASB

Growing up, even before knowing Christ and seeking out for what it meant to truly be a believer, this verse has always been one that I have held close to my heart. Growing up was difficult for me, so the idea of seeking out the kingdom of God was my way finding and obtaining more of God himself.

Up until recently I learned that Jesus never meant for it to be about works or self-effort. The principle of the story was about one having their priorities in order. It was simply about choosing God things over worldly things.

John Crowder put it this way: “When you got saved, you found the kingdom He told you to seek.”

Our culture has put a lot of emphasis on seeking God.

We’ve taken seeking Yahweh out of context. Right now you are probably asking, “Well what about the verses that say seek and you will find and when you seek me with your whole heart you will find me?”

To seek is simply a pre-Christ exodus. Once we have laid hold of God or better yet we have realized that he has laid hold of us in his beloved, we no longer have to continue on the journey or seeking more of God.

Once we come into the revelation that we have already been found by him in and through his Son, we can stop seeking and start enjoying.

To seek more of God is nothing but an action of self-efforts. Paul says in his letter to the Colossians that we are completely filled with the fullness of God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us (Col. 2:10 TPT)

Now tell me, why are we seeking the more of God when we have already been filled with him? Sounds like works to me…

Over the last several years and coming under this reality, I have gone from seeking Yahweh out desperation to enjoying him out of being in union with him.

You have permission to enjoy Abba, not just as a partaker, but as a sharer of his life in the trinity!