Pursuing What Matters

Have you stopped to think about the things you’re pursuing? We’re all pursuing different things. Some are in the pursuit of money, fame recognition and validation. The desire to have certain things are what drives us, sometimes blindly. We all get to choose what we pursue and how long we pursue it. Will the things you’re pursuing matter in eternity? I’ve found a lot of what we pursue is really only for this world. The Bible names several things we should pursue as believers. That means we must change our focus and actively go after them. God wants us to start thinking beyond this world. When our thinking changes, so will the things we pursue.

Here are some Bible verses on what we should pursue:

1. Pursue [this] love [with eagerness, make it your goal], yet earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual gifts [to be used by believers for the benefit of the church], but especially that you may prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people].

1 Corinthians 14:1 AMP

2. So then, let us pursue [with enthusiasm] the things which make for peace and the building up of one another [things which lead to spiritual growth].

Romans 14:19 AMP

3. Even the strong and the wealthy grow weak and hungry, but those who passionately pursue the Lord will never lack any good thing.

Psalms 34:10 TPT

4. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.

I Timothy 6:11 NKJV

5. Those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits themselves. But those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to pursue spiritual realities.

Romans 8:5 TPT

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