A few weeks ago, my husband offered to help me navigate the terrible traffic into Houston to take my clarinet to the repair shop. We decided to take care of a couple of other tasks on the way, as we’d be driving right past them on the way to the music store. We made sure we had all of the items we’d need for the additional stops, and we headed for Houston. We made it almost a mile down the road before I shook my head with frustration. We had remembered all of the things we’d need for our extra stops, but there was just one problem.
We had left my clarinet at home. Sigh. We made a quick U-turn and went back home to grab the clarinet.
This embarrassing episode made us think. How often do we remember relatively unimportant things, yet forget the “main thing”? Jesus explicitly warned us about this in Matthew 6:31-33: “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
We must understand this concept already, or we wouldn’t have so many expressions about pretty much the same thing:
I think Jesus said it best: Seek first.
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13
