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From Resource to Relationship: Returning to the Garden
by πdPiper
“…do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes… But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:25, 33)
By seeking a relational connection with our Father and Kingdom—really His Family and Realms, we created a gravity well around us that pulls in every resource and capacity that we will ever need and want!
When Cain broke relationship with Yahweh, he changed his relationship-centric life into a resource-centric one that resulted in broken relationship with everyone and everything. Including his resources. He moved out of a relationally-based perpetual supply into a resource-focused life of lack.
In the final statement of Matthew 6, Yeshua captures the nature of a resource focused life. He exhorts His disciples not to worry—to be drawn in different directions—over tomorrow. Tomorrow will be pulled in different directions itself. Rather, it’s enough to deal with today’s trouble.
The Greek word used here for trouble is κακια (kakia). It can also mean, wickedness, evil in the sense of labor, misfortune. Properly: the underlying principle of evil (inherent). The root source for evil is broken relationship. We saw that first in the Garden with Adam and Eve, and then reinforced not long after, with Cain’s choice.
Yeshua is saying that the day is already filled up with the effects of our broken relationship with Yahweh. Don’t bother yourself with worrying about tomorrow’s troubles. Focus on dealing with the trouble currently in front of you.
If the trouble of the day (labor and toil for the gathering of things) is the result of a broken relationship with Yahweh, then making the “seeking” the Kingdom your chief effort, means working to restore a right relationship with Him, so that the adding of “all” things to ourselves might be restored to us today.
The beauty of resolving the trouble of today, means that tomorrow’s trouble is also dealt with, as well. For a restored relationship with Father and His Kingdom, mean a return to the Garden, and the restoration of all relationships and the resources that flow out of them.
By seeking a relational connection with our Father and Kingdom—really His Family and Realms, we created a gravity well around us that pulls in every resource and capacity that we will ever need and want!
When Cain broke relationship with Yahweh, he changed his relationship-centric life into a resource-centric one that resulted in broken relationship with everyone and everything. Including his resources. He moved out of a relationally-based perpetual supply into a resource-focused life of lack.
In the final statement of Matthew 6, Yeshua captures the nature of a resource focused life. He exhorts His disciples not to worry—to be drawn in different directions—over tomorrow. Tomorrow will be pulled in different directions itself. Rather, it’s enough to deal with today’s trouble.
The Greek word used here for trouble is κακια (kakia). It can also mean, wickedness, evil in the sense of labor, misfortune. Properly: the underlying principle of evil (inherent). The root source for evil is broken relationship. We saw that first in the Garden with Adam and Eve, and then reinforced not long after, with Cain’s choice.
Yeshua is saying that the day is already filled up with the effects of our broken relationship with Yahweh. Don’t bother yourself with worrying about tomorrow’s troubles. Focus on dealing with the trouble currently in front of you.
If the trouble of the day (labor and toil for the gathering of things) is the result of a broken relationship with Yahweh, then making the “seeking” the Kingdom your chief effort, means working to restore a right relationship with Him, so that the adding of “all” things to ourselves might be restored to us today.
The beauty of resolving the trouble of today, means that tomorrow’s trouble is also dealt with, as well. For a restored relationship with Father and His Kingdom, mean a return to the Garden, and the restoration of all relationships and the resources that flow out of them.
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