#put God first

[heartsings77]

[ae-cha08]

Make time every morning to spend a few minutes or longer seeking God's presence. Layout your prayers before God and seek Him expectantly. When you pray God listens. It isn't usually an audible voice but thoughts or impressions on our hearts and minds. God speaks loudly through scripture and you will know when God speaks to you because you will sense His peace. 💙

[faithfullyfound]

Let's remember to put God at the center of our lives. That is when we are overcome with His perfect peace and grace that allows us to share and live in His divine nature. Proverbs 3:6 "In all ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight." ✿

[momentsbeforemass]

Three things

“Woe to you Pharisees!”

In today’s Gospel, Jesus delivers a well-deserved rebuke to the Pharisees.

For having their focus on the wrong things. When we hear what they’re focusing on (tithing mint?), it’s easy to check out for the rest of the Gospel.

After all, none of us are tithing mint or garden herbs, so we’re good. Right?

Not exactly. While we’re not focusing on the same wrong things that they were back in the day, most of us have less silly stuff that we’re focusing on. Less obvious stuff (at least to us) that serves as our wrong things.

And most of us have a lot of wrong things that we focus on. Things that we’ve told ourselves are very important. Maybe it’s stuff like jobs and careers. Or stuff like wealth and material possessions. Or stuff like fame and how we look on social media. Or whatever else it is.

Truly, it doesn’t matter what we’re focusing on (no matter how important or godly we might think it is), if what we’re focusing on is the wrong thing.

So how do we know what is the right thing? What should you and I be focusing on?

Actually, it’s three things. Jesus gives us three things that are always the right things to focus on.

Three things that are in practice inseparable. Don’t waste your time trying to do one without the others.

Justice.

The love of God.

And bearing each other’s burdens.

If you’re thinking, “that sounds like a practical application of the Great Commandment*,” then you are not far from the Kingdom of God.

* “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Today’s Readings

[theinwardlight]

Friends are advised to place God, not themselves, in the center of the universe and, in all aspects of inward life and outward activity, to keep themselves open to the healing power of the Spirit of Christ.

Faith & Practice, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Photo of Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia USA

[chosen1sposts]

[simplyspiritualyt]

The Keys to SUCCESS! This will start your day right! Motivational Speech

[troubledontlast1]

God cares about what you do in secret, more than what you do in public.

[yummytiger]

leftists assume that all Christians are right wing assholes, but they are very very wrong, Real Christians are mocked all over the world everyday, people assume the worst about us, but Real Christians are gonna change this world, the next 20 years is ours and we will transform this world and ourselves forever, putting Christ first and ourselves second, something too many people are often bad at

[dtalk]

Matthew 6:33 [33]But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

[georgiasedify]

Celebrating holidays

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Daily writing promptHow do you celebrate holidays?View all responses Celebrating holidays is unimportant to me because all the focus is on that day and not God. The stores get richer, and it takes from hard workers, etc. So basically, it’s a money grab that has been going on for centuries and decades. Holidays shift away from the spiritual significance.  Towards more commercial or social…

[ae-cha08]

We seek God first when we go to Him for comfort, strength, and reassurance, acknowledging who He is and what He can do. God has a good plan for us. 💙

[mariedagoddess1]

idc to talk to people I know most of the time they being nosey or trying to see how things can benefit them ngl I only have love for those who have love for me no we can’t choose who we related to but we can choose who we have a relationship with the way I’ve watched things play out I don’t care to have a relationship with nobody especially family blood makes you related love makes you family which I have yet to feel meaning only family I had was my mom and the one I will create 🤷🏾‍♀️

[jatawrites]

Leave it to him! 🤍🙏🏽