Seek First His Kingdom

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM

Heb 13:1-3

13:1 Keep on loving each other as brothers. 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.

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Keep on assume we already do love each other as brothers, so we will leave it at that and make sure we keep on doing it. Now if we do not love each other as brothers, we might be a bit if a fix, so to speak. Of course that would also imply that we know what it means to love as brothers do. Perhaps that would be an interesting study someday, but in all reality we most likely already know and forget to do it sometimes, because we are so catch up in our own life. As far as entertaining strangers, that original would mean hospitality; it is used also by Paul to imply we should share with God’s people who are in need. The whole idea here is that we should not be so wrapped up in our own needs that we do not overlook the needs of others, both from the household of faith and those we have do not know. It is possible that when we meet a new person with a need, that person could, and may very well be an angel. Would that not be shooting ourselves in the foot, if we have an opportunity to help our, show hospitality to a person we just met and turned our backs on them? The same applies to those in prison and those who are suffering. Could we not say, “But for the grace of God, there go I”? Once again should we turn our backs, or offer our hand? If would appear if we offered our hand, we would be very busy doing this hospitality thing, and we would have very little time for the pursuit of our own agenda. Is it possible to do both? Can we be about our Father’s business and our own at the same time? Or is it possible that we can go about living our live as God directs and rather than going around looking to see who we can love, what stranger we can entertain, what prisoner we can have compassion for, and remember those who are suffering, when He directs our path across such people, we are open and fulfill His plan? It still boils down to always being open to the will of God and serving His kingdom first over the pursuit of selfish desires. Seek first His Kingdom.