This is my spiritual thought for tonight's family home evening.
In the King Jame's version of Matthew 6:33, it reads (as Christ's words): "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
That's a great scripture that helps me understand how to order my life.
But, it gets better.
The Joseph Smith translation of the KJV adds these great phrases:
"seek ye first to build up the kingdom of God and to establish his righteousness."*
These two verbs phrases are really powerful clarifications, to me. They take this instruction from this being about goals I should be seeking for to being about how I should live my life. Action oriented, arrows-out oriented. This weekend it helped me in real, practical ways to begin making decisions that need to be made.
I am thankful for scripture.
*The additional introductory instruction is also enlightening, but not the focus of this thought. "Wherefore, seek not the things of this world but seek ye..."
2 comments:
Thanks, Ruth. This builds on the conversation my husband and I were having about our future and choices we are making for our family. I'll share this during our family home evening tonight. Wish you were closer so you could come over and share it yourself! :D Miss you!
Sarah, I'm glad you could use it. :) Hope fhe went well.
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