Seeking Jesus For All Our Needs - Part 674

"The heaven, [even] the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath He given to the children of men." (Psalms 115:16) Even so, Jesus instructs us to first "seek the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)

One important tenet of the gospel is that before faith came, we were under the Law. Old Testament Law -- including the ten commandments -- was originally intended to be our schoolmaster -- pointing us toward the prophesied Christ. As a consequence, an understanding of faith was absent from society even though the scriptures acknowledge that faith "should afterwards be revealed."

However, note that after that faith is come, we are no longer under this schoolmaster. Why is this? Because when we ask Jesus into our lives, we become the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. We become sons and daughters of the most high King. God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) The Bible states, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

No discrimination among persons. Each and every one of us can partake of the goodness of Jesus. Indeed, "there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female --- for all of us believers are one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:23-29) For the promise -- that He should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to His seed through the law but "through the righteousness of faith." (Romans 4:13)

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me -- though he were dead, yet shall he live." (John 11:25-26) When we ask Jesus into our hearts and lives, and follow in His work, we are washed -- and sanctified -- and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus -- by the quickening Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)

It is for this reason that we are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes -- to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein, is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. Because He loved us enough to take on a human sin-prone body and shed His precious blood on the cross of Calvary for you and I. 

Ask Jesus into your life today. Read about His goodness in the Bible. Stand in the offering plate.