{"id":467772,"date":"2025-01-26T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=467772"},"modified":"2025-01-26T01:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:08:12","slug":"look-again-and-consecrate-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/look-again-and-consecrate-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Again and Consecrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9a7a2b05aa80a3633ac2b0abc283b9c2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If that is how God clothes the grass of the field. . . will he not much more clothe you? \u2014Matthew 6:30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simple message is always a puzzle to those who aren\u2019t simple. What Jesus is saying here is \u201cGod looks after those who seek his kingdom, so seek and don\u2019t worry about anything else.\u201d But we\u2019ll never be able to take this message to heart if we don\u2019t possess Jesus\u2019s own simplicity.<br>To be simple is to concentrate on our relationship with him. We slip out of spiritual communion when we complicate things, worrying and overthinking and insisting we know better than God. We get lost in the cares of the world, and we forget the promise of \u201cmuch more.\u201d Jesus compares us to the \u201cbirds of the air\u201d (Matthew 6:26): their only goal is to obey the principle of life inside them. What principle is inside us? Jesus says that if we are rightly related to him, obeying the Spirit inside, God will look after our \u201cfeathers.\u201d<br>To be simple is to grow where we are planted. \u201cSee how the flowers of the field grow,\u201d Jesus says (v. 28). Many of us refuse to grow where we\u2019re planted, and the result is that we never take root, never blossom fully. Jesus says that we shouldn\u2019t go running after the things we think we need. If we obey the life God has given us, he will look after the rest.<br>To be simple is to consecrate each moment to God. Consecration involves setting ourselves aside for one particular thing\u2014giving it our attention, dedicating our actions to it. We can\u2019t consecrate ourselves to God once and be done with it. We must consecrate continually, each moment and every action. If we do, we will find ourselves absolutely free: free to do God\u2019s work, free to live lives of amazing simplicity, free to set aside confusion, angst, and worry.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that is how God clothes the grass of the field. . . will he not much more clothe you? \u2014Matthew 6:30 A simple message is always a puzzle to those who aren\u2019t simple. What Jesus is saying here is \u201cGod looks after those who seek his kingdom, so seek and don\u2019t worry about anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}