Distractions to Seeking the Kingdom of God

What opposes a Christian seeking purely the kingdom of God and His righteousness is that he is convinced that created things will bring him the peace, joy and sense of security that he seeks.

This misunderstanding comes out of a failure to understand and appreciate the greatness of God’s grace. Only when a believer comes to know the reason why his soul has lusted after things in the past, will he come to realise his true need for those things that Jesus said we ought to seek after first.

Too many of us are seeking after the kingdom of God as just another item on our prayer list. If we came to understand even a fraction of just how wonderful God’s peace is, we would be able to abandon all of our other wants that we believe our conditional in our attaining wholeness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon said:

“God has only to give you what you want to make you feel the emptiness of it!...You will generally notice that when the Believer gets near to God, tastes the unseen joys and eats the bread that was made in Heaven, all the feasts of earth, all its amusements and all its glories seem very flat, stale and unprofitable!”
—1891, Sermon #2225

There are some Christians who are trying to believe God for miracles of healing and financial provision, yet they are still burdened with fear and guilt. How can a Christian believe that God will heal him when he does not even believe that he is right with God?

Without this sense of right-standing with God, he will feel that there is something wrong with him and that he has to keep a set of rules in order for God to accept him. If a believer does not know he is right with God, sin will continue to play an active role in his life.

We cannot seek after miracles by faith when we are living in sin and not walking in love. It is therefore important to recognise this spiritual condition and to remedy it by learning about the promises of God, especially with regards to faith, love and righteousness. We must take the fundamental first steps of faith without getting too far ahead of God.