Seek His Kingdom: Theme for 2025

Seek His Kingdom

Matthew 6:25-34

A short poem:

Overheard In An Orchard

Said the Robin to the Sparrow

“I should really like to know,

Why these anxious human beings

Rush around and worry so?”

Said the Sparrow to the Robin,

“Friend I think that it must be

That they have no Heavenly Father Such as cares for you and me.”

Elizabeth Cheney.

A Bible Study:

Read Matthew 6:25-34

Read it again, in a different translation. What stands out to you, as you hear the text?

In this passage, Jesus invites his hearers to meditate on two things: “Look at the birds of the air…” “See how the flowers of the field grow…”

Why might this be? Or, why does Jesus ask his hearers to do this before he makes his point?

What things do you learn when you connect with God through his creation?

Jesus also asks three questions:

• “Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”
• “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”
• “If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more cloth you – you of little faith?”

They are questions that invite simple answers, yet at the same time, they are difficult to consider!

• Why do we need to be asked questions like this?
• What do you sense God is saying to you through his word?
• What are you going to do about it?