So many loose ends can remain after a Sunday message.
Perhaps, you don’t get to say everything that could be said…of course you don’t!
Or sometimes you finish and realize that there is something you should have said but didn’t or couldn’t for some reason…
OR you finish the message and later you come up with a new angle or new question when you are finally quiet enough to hear the deeper thoughts…
Such is the case with Sunday’s message.
Let’s say we all agree with what the real problem is…
That worry is just the symptom, the real problem is a lack of faith in God that can be manifested in a variety of ways, and that something must be done about it (“seek first the kingdom of God…”) and when we do, God is going to take care of the rest.
With all of this being the case, there is still at least one lurking question, though, isn’t there?
What about the person who ‘seeks first the kingdom’ but still doesn’t seem to have enough?
The missionary like Lottie Moon who, though we don’t know all the details, seems to have starved to death because she gave away all of her food during a famine in her beloved China and died of malnutrition on the way back to America to get medical treatment.
A lurking question in deed because I said Matthew 6:33 is a promise…
What do we do with it?
To me, there are only two choices, really.
First, we could say Jesus was wrong and should not be trusted any further. Anybody want that choice? I didn’t think so… 
Second, we could recognize a key truth.
Everything that happens is under the watchful eye of the Sovereignty of God.
In moments like these, I am reminded of passages like Is. 55:8-9 that remind us that there are things that happen that we don’t and will never understand.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Is. 55:8-9 ESV.
Everything that happens happens for a reason and that this isn’t simply something sentimental we say to help ourselves sleep at night but what the Scriptures really teach. However, this passage, and others remind us that we are not guaranteed an explanation of why things happen the way they do.
This means if everything is done rightly and the bad still comes, it is because God is doing something behind the scenes that we may not see and we must trust Him if we hope to pull through. Simply put, it means that if something happens in our lives, it is either because God has caused it, or has allowed it.
Do the tragedies still hurt? Absolutely. Should we still cry? You’d better believe it.
But someday…somehow…whether we ever see the resolution or not…we can trust that through the wreckage our good God is up to something good. His Word tells us so.
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Rom. 8:28 ESV
So, the short answer to the lurking question…
Matthew 6:33 is still a promise.
But it is a promise that understands what Paul understood
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Cor. 13:12 ESV
It is a promise that understands we see what we see and know what we know and we also know that we are limited by what we see and we know and that God is not.
So you keep ‘seeking first the kingdom’ and God will keep taking care of you.
And should you ever run out of food or money and die, know that you won’t care.
It is only then that you actually truly begin to live.
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 1 Cor. 15:50-55 ESV
