Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. There is more to life than food and more to the body than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither plant nor harvest, they have no silo or barn, yet God feeds them. You are worth so much more than birds! Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life? If you can’t do such a small thing, why worry about the rest? Notice how the lilies grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t spin cloth. But I say to you that even Solomon in all his splendor wasn’t dressed like one of these. If God dresses grass in the field so beautifully, even though it’s alive today and tomorrow it’s thrown into the furnace, how much more will God do for you, you people of weak faith! Don’t chase after what you will eat and what you will drink. Stop worrying. All the nations of the world long for these things. Your Father knows that you need them. Instead, desire his kingdom and these things will be given to you as well. (Luke 12:22-31, CEB)
Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
What do you desire?
As I typed the title to this devotion, I thought of the song below. Desire by U2. Desire is something that can drive us and make us do things we would not normally do. And that is really the point of the last sentence of the reading.
Desire makes us do things we would not normally do for an outcome. When I type this, I think of doing bad things or things that might be wrong, maybe because I have been watching reruns of Criminal Minds lately, or do you do the same? We are motivated to get what we want and sometimes do things out of character, but if we desire the kingdom of God, we will also possibly do things out of character, great things. Things that bring love and mercy.
And when we desire God’s kingdom, everything will fall into place.
So what do you desire?
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