The "Much More" of God

Read Matthew 6:24-34

A simple statement made by Jesus is always a puzzle until we ourselves become simple. How can we be simple with the simplicity of Jesus Christ? By allowing His Spirit to lead us, recognizing and relying on Him and obeying Him as He speaks into our hearts. When we take these steps, it will amaze someone as to how simple life truly becomes. Every time we slow our walk with Him, some even backing away from Him altogether, it is because in our minds, we impertinently know better than Him. When we stop listening, obeying, trusting and following, we struggle to live for God. We allow the cares of this world to come in, and we forget the “much more” of our heavenly Father.
“Behold, the fowls of the air”; their main aim is to obey the principles of life that were placed in them when God spoke them into existence, and because they do, God looks after them. Jesus said that if you and I are rightly related to Him and obey His Spirit that is in you, God will look after your “feathers”.
“Consider the lilies of the field”, that they grow where they are planted. Many of us refuse to grow where we are planted, and consequently, we take no root anywhere. Jesus assured us that when we obey the life and calling that He has placed in us, He will look after all of the other things in our life. So the question becomes, do you think that Jesus Christ would lie?
If we are not experiencing the “much more” of God, it is because we are not obeying the life that God has chosen for us, and we are left with confusing and frustrating circumstances.
The answer to our need for “much more” is found in consecration. God is calling us to a life of consecration. Consecration means the continual separating of oneself to a particular thing. We cannot consecrate once for all, but on a daily basis, we separate ourselves to His will, and when we do, watch out for the “much more” of God to consume your life.