When the time is right, God will do all that He has planned. Ephesians 1v10

Some time ago I wrote an article on prayer. I keep thinking about it.
What I missed out, what I could have said, what I could have said better, when will the theological police come...?

I am struck by the depths of what is commonly known as the 'Lord`s Prayer' and the realisation of how little I have scratched the surface of it.

I keep coming back to the lines 'Your Kingdom come, Your will be done'.

Elsewhere Jesus promised 'Seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness and I will sort out the rest'.

What does this mean? How does apply it apply in everyday life?

I am writing this during a period of prolonged stormy weather, on a day forecast to be the worst so far, having travelled to a part of the country where the advice is don't travel! Originally aimed to travel on one day, but felt a week earlier should go a couple of days later. On the original day and the following watched the train disruptions on the internet - on the day we travelled had the perfect journey you won't see on the news!

I am reminded of another day when by divine appontment a herd of cows blocked the railway line - I arrived at my destination at just the right time...
Am I being selfish? What about the others on the train?
What about those who are losing property, livelihoods (and lives) in this storm?

James warns against saying 'tomorrow I will do this or that' - but instead should say 'if God wills I will do this...'. That does not mean let yourself get blown over by a storm, or lie down and let a divine tractor ride over you - but instead 'Seek first His Kingdom, His Righteousness'.

Even so there are things which afflict me which I wish did not happen. Jesus said he did not want to go to the cross. There are things affecting me which can be directly attributed to the fall 6,000 years ago.
There are things where I don't have the full picture of what is going on in heavenly places (such as Job's mates).

In the book of Revelation we read of 'those who overcame' by:

(a) The blood of the lamb - the legal basis for my standing with God.
I don't have to understand it. Its signed, sealed, completed for my benefit (and yours).
Nothing I can do to add to it.

(b) The word of their testimony.
The answer to Satan's slur 6,000 years ago in the garden. I know 'God is for me, not against me'.

(c) Loved not their lives to the death.
In the context in which this is written it refers to martyrdom.
What does it mean to me?
It means I will continue to say 'God is for me, not against me' despite all the evidence to the contrary that people, science, politics, religion, the weather, the stock market, the internet, Satan throw at me.

Seek first His Kingdom, His Righteousness