July 24, 2025
What Are You Seeking?
Each month the MM staff gather for a time of worship and a message. We call them our monthly Chapel times, and we’ve been having them since 2017. We invite area pastors and worship leaders into our space and they speak truth into us to start our month off right. This year, we started sharing a little bit about them on our blog.
Our July Chapel centered around the passage from Matthew 6:33. Our speaker encouraged us to write out our to-do list for the day. I’d encourage you to do that right now as well. I’ll wait…
Okay, now that you’ve got all the things that have been rattling around in your brain jotted down, our speaker encouraged us to go back through the list and write “with God” at the end of each task.
Matthew 6:33
Then our speaker asked the question, “What are you seeking?” from the passage above.
- When we “seek God first” we are asking what he wants done
- “above all else” focuses on God’s will
- to “live righteously” means that we should be asking Him what the plan for the day is
- the last part of the verse: “give you everything you need” is God’s presence.
So, let’s go back to that list, shall we? What are the things that we need to prioritize that are God-honoring tasks. Or, for those things that “have to be done” – how can we invite God into those areas and seek him first, even in the midst of our “have to’s.”
When we trust God with our goals and dream, and hold them loosely, he can morph them in a beautiful way. Maybe not the way you originally thought, but probably what’s best for you. When you look at your to-do list with this lens, you can go from a managed life to a formed life. From a life filled with tasks, to focused on the people inside of those tasks.
That’s what how we can seek God first, and still get stuff done.
Practice Yourself
If this practice of seeking God first seems impossible with the mounting task list you have today. We have one more exercise for you.
In our prayer time this month, we also took a few minutes to reflect on this message and go through the exercise again in unhurried time. To cast our to-do list on Him and humble ourselves under the might hand of God (1 Peter 5:6-7). Again, go ahead and do that right now. With a big exhale, hand them over and rest in His joy today (John 15:11).
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