“But seek ye first the kingdom of Yehovah…” Matthew 6:33
A friend of mine once said, “If we do nothing, we die, and if we do something, we die; so why bother trying to make a difference? Simple; those that do nothing leave nothing behind but failure, while those who do something leave a ladder up which those who consider themselves failures can climb out of despair.” What challenging and inspiring words.
It seems the closer we approach “the end times” and the day of the Yeshua’s return, the more people appear to be taken up building their own empires and making this natural life more financially and physically comfortable. What an indictment it is on those of us who claim to be Yeshua’s disciples, that instead of spending our time, talents, passion, energy and finance furthering His Kingdom, we spend those assets building our ministries and bank balances, while the overwhelming majority of the world’s population are heading towards an eternity without Yehovah.
If we are true disciples of Yeshua we need to count the cost of serving Him in spirit and in truth, take up our cross and follow Him. May we count the cost of building His Kingdom, as workers together with Him, and be 100% sold out to paying the necessary price of giving our all for His name’s sake. That cost may include sacrificing our own agendas in order to work in partnership with others to help them to reach the lost, rather than spending time and effort building our ministry profile; it may and should mean we seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, regardless of what “return” or personal benefit there is to us. May each of us be willing to lay it all down at the cross – in the same way and to the same extent He did for us.