Fully His: Putting It All Together
Matthew 6:19–34
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” — Matthew 6:33
There’s a little poem sometimes known as The Robin and the Sparrow:
“Said the robin to the sparrow, ‘I should really like to know, why these anxious human beings rush about and worry so.’ Said the sparrow to the robin, ‘Friend, I think it must be, that they have no heavenly Father such as cares for you and me.'”
The birds aren’t carefree because life is easy. They face predators, weather, and hunger. They’re carefree because they have a Father who holds them. And so do you.
Over the course of Matthew 6:19–34, Jesus walks us through four deeply connected realities about what it means to live as a citizen of His Kingdom. Where you store your treasure shapes your heart. How you see God shapes how you hold your money. Who sits on the throne of your life determines everything else. And whether you worry or trust reveals, honestly and sometimes uncomfortably, what you actually believe about your Father.
These aren’t four separate lessons. They’re four facets of one question: are you fully His?
Not mostly His. Not His on Sundays. Not His in the areas where it’s easy and comfortable. Fully. Undividedly. His.
Matthew 6:33 is the hinge on which all of it turns: seek first the Kingdom. Not second. Not alongside everything else. First. When that is genuinely true — when Jesus holds the throne and you hold your stuff loosely — everything falls into its proper place. Including the things you’ve been worried about.
Consider: Of the four areas — treasure, generosity, master, worry — which one is Jesus most clearly speaking to you about right now? What is one step of surrender you could take today?