Seek first...

I was thinking today about that camp/youth group song of "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God"....I know all the words and know that it is almost scripture verbatum....in fact, that is one way I used to memorize scripture was through songs. Anyway, I was thinking about this because lately I have been contemplating two different but related things:

• My spirit as oposed to my soul
• the Kingdom of God

In the last two weeks I heard three sermons about the body, soul, and spirit and though I am familiar with them all, I have really received some new revelation and have begun to seek more about the application of it. It started with Staff meeting two weeks ago when John Bevere (on video) talked about having a strong soul and a weak spirit and the tendancy to live out of your soul. He talked about how hard it is to tell the difference until you really get squeezed and that is when you can see if you really have a strong or weak spirit.... yikes!

So, I started thinking, journeling, meditating, and praying about this.....and it has been something good to chew on for weeks. I have also had a desire to SEE HIS KINGDOM on EARTH as it is in Heaven. This isn't a new concept for me, as I have been a casual observer of this type of thing for a few years.

This weekend when I was on a little personal retreat I was praying that God would show me how to strengthen my spirit and that He would also show me the Kingdom. I saw a few things I have never seen before- one was the 1st Beattitude in Matthew 4:3

"Blessed is the poor in spirit, for he shall see the Kingdom of Heaven"-

Woah...did that just say that HAPPY or BLESSED is the one who is POOR in SPIRIT and that person will SEE the Kingdom??

I took it a step further and did a little word study of Poor...and do you know what it means in the Greek? Yep- Poor! But poor in the really poor sense....the defition was " poor and helpless; one who in his abjectness needs lifting. One who had falledn from a better state. So poor that he can only obtain his living from daily begging"

Then tonight I was reading more about the Kingdom and I came across the "Seek first the Kingdom of God...."....So I think it turns out that I am in the right place...poor and humbled to a state where I have never been before....and seeking the Kingdom.

Who new that the old camp song would be so personal and real to me...so many years later.