Seek God’s Kingdom (Part 3)

May 16, 2025

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But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:33 (ESV)

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All right, so how do we seek God’s righteousness?

As an investment strategy for my life, I want to plant seeds of righteousness that will bring in a good harvest of fruit.

So, naturally, this harvest is the fruit of the Spirit.

As a reminder, the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Back when I was in seminary, I did an extensive study on this in Greek class. My conclusion was that this fruit was like a cluster of grapes: one single cluster of fruit attached to the Vine.

Not a cornucopia of fruit to pick and choose from.

Anyway, the best way I’ve found to invest in this fruit is by …

Spending time with God in the Word and in prayer.

When I spend more and more time digging into the Word — listening, reading, studying, memorizing, and meditating — I find myself slowly being transformed by it.

Similarly, time spent praying is time knitting my soul with God’s, so that the things He cares about I begin to care about too.

What I need to be careful of is becoming paralyzed by the journey of where I ought to be in my walk with Christ and be content with simply taking one more step forward with God. Meaning, I’ll often neglect doing anything because I want to be perfect, when reality is that I’m never going to be perfect this side of heaven, and I should just take one more step.

All right, one more step tomorrow.

— Ricky Ketchum

Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the ESV®Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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