Psalm34:10 “But those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”’

DAILY READING:  Matthew 18:1-20; Numbers 5-6; Ecclesiastes 5

David Boudia, is one of America’s most heralded young divers. In 2008, at age 19, he qualified for the Olympics in Beijing. He trained obsessively and wholeheartedly, with the hope of winning a gold medal in his first Olympics. However, during the event, he failed miserably, finishing in the 10th position. He did not win a single medal. Disappointed, he cried inconsolably. He felt he had let his country down, disappointed his team, his parents, and everyone who had invested in him. He felt like a complete and utter failure.

After the Olympics, he returned to college, and while battling with depression, he began to pursue a lifestyle of partying. He was drinking heavily by his sophomore year, with his satisfaction always coming from the next drink. But that satisfaction was fleeting, and life began to make less and less sense. One Saturday it all came to a breaking point and he reached out to a Christian friend for help. This friend then introduced him to Jesus, and from that moment David Boudia’s life turned around. After his conversion, as he began to seek God earnestly, his sport became insignificant and unimportant. To him, sports could not be compared to the weighty, eternal matters he was pursuing. And with this new understanding, he began to see diving as a means to bring glory to God rather than for promoting himself.

In 2012, he once again made the Olympic team. This time, however, things were different. He was no longer desperately seeking to win a gold medal. He went to the London Olympics, seeking to honor The Lord, to minister to his teammates and fellow competitors. And with the new focus, God also honored him and enabled him to win a gold medal and a bronze medal.

What made the difference? He had changed the focus of his quest from seeking gold to seeking God. He was no longer seeking glory for himself  but rather seeking to give glory to God. David Boudia’s story is captured in his book ‘Greater Than Gold’, there he tells readers that when they put God first, they receive what they’ve been seeking all along.

Indeed when your focus is bringing glory to God, you will never end up in shame. Pursuing after the heart of God is the secret card for experiencing success in life.

Psalm34:10 says “But those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”

When we seek God and His kingdom, good things run after us. Indeed what you seek after, determines what seeks after you. And putting God first in all our affairs causes success to come after us. God is not ‘a’ factor for our success, God is ‘the’ factor for our success. The truth is that all the labour of man is futility without God’s input.

Psalm 127:1 says, “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”

Also in John 15:5 Jesus says “Without me you can do nothing “. And in Phil. 4:13 Paul says “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me”.

Indeed we cannot make a mark in life until God has first put His mark on us. And we will have no effect until He has first affected us. We can never impact our world until God has first impacted us.  God is the maker of men’s destinies, and it is only through following Him that we become made in life (Matt.4:19).

When you put God first, you will never end up as last. And when you advance His kingdom, you’ll never end up at the back. Mighty men are made by the Almighty God. He is the Most High God, and all who are joined to Him end up in the high places of life.

Mathew 6:33 said, “Seek ye first God’s kingdom and His righteousness, and every other thing shall be added unto you”.

Certainly when we seek God first and His kingdom, good things run after us. If you have been experiencing stagnation in any area perhaps you need a change of perspective. If you’ll change your focus today and decide to let God take first place and give Him the glory in all things, He will certainly change your story. And it doesn’t take time, it takes God. Just one touch of His favor is enough to bring you into an overflow of blessings.  Therefore as you evaluate your priorities in these last days of the year, be encouraged to resolve in your heart that you are going to give God first place in everything. And when you give God your best, He’ll take care of the rest. Indeed as you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, everything else shall be added unto you.’

PRAYER: Father, today I choose to put You first in everything. I indeed acknowledge that without You, I can do nothing. Thank You Lord for having Your way in my life and perfecting all that concerns me in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Quote: The tests you are going through in life today are not for your destruction; they are for your testimony. – WORDBITE 222

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