Everyone needs the necessities of life: food and water, shelter, and such. People spend the biggest part of their lives trying to provide these things for themselves and their families. There is nothing wrong with working to have such things if doing so does not become ones only goal. All people need to realize that there are other things that are needed. Things that have to do with providing the things needed to spend eternity in heaven.
One must understand the need for spiritual things in their lives. Sadly, so many today do not take time for spiritual things. It may because at least three generations have been taught there is no God. Jesus said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33).
Those who only work for the physical things of life are often disappointed because those things can disappear. One who trusts in God knows that even if the earthly things are taken away, God is still there.
He is a eternal.
God must be a part of one’s life. One must be willing to investigate the word of God and to find out what it is that God wants them to do. As they investigate the word, they are motivated by the things they read. They find out about Jesus the Son of God who willingly sacrificed Himself for all mankind. The apostle Paul wrote, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement” (Rom. 5:6 – 11). When a person reads of the cruelty that the Lord suffered it is almost beyond belief that one could love another that much, but He did. Faith is produced in the individual by coming to know God through His word. That faith continues to grow as the individual grows spiritually.
Such love displayed by God shows the need for man to have love in his life; love that is willing to give back as shown by Paul as he wrote, “I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also” (Rom. 1:14 – 15). If a person has love to give back, then they will willingly obey God and become His child.
Then they continue to study God’s word and they will have the love, the desire to carry the saving message to others.
Paul had a great love for his fellow countrymen. He wrote, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge” (Rom.
10:1, 2). One is surrounded by family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who have not learned of the love Christ had for them. Knowing this they will have the desire to teach these people. All need things, but spiritual things need to take precedence over everything (Matt. 6:33).