But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness - Matthew 6: 33

The whole Sermon on the Mount: the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.

What does Jesus teach His disciples today? He exhorts them, that they 'should seek' (zeteite in Greek Text = imperative; hence a mandatory command and not a wish / request) how to live the values of the Kingdom and how to accomplish the saving plan of God ( = righteousness) - the top priority!

God, who knows they need their basic human needs like food and clothing, will see to them just as He feeds and clothes nature: "... and all these shall be added/given to you."

It is this mode of life that Jesus presents to His disciples to follow. This way of life is in total contrast to that of the secular world of little faith in which one worries so much as how to feed or cloth oneself and how to acquire mammon (=Wealth, property), being almost a slave of these human needs and mammon.

This imperative of Jesus (zeteite in Greek Text = Second person plural) is directed to all His disciples. Hence it has to be taken seriously by them as individuals and as a group, the Church. The crowds are also listening to these words and so, none can excuse oneself from this imperative of Jesus.

Today do we, individuals and the Church, prioritize the Kingdom and righteousness in our life, individual and ecclesial? Are our lives dominated by the values of the Kingdom? Do we strive to be righteous in the sight of God? Are we of little faith? Or are we of deep faith, placing our full confidence in the God who so assiduously cares for nature and who so maternally tended His people in exile remembering them constantly (Isaiah 49: writing their name upon the palms of His hands)? The more and more we live the Kingdom life of righteousness as individuals and as the Church, the more and more our material needs are met, as in the days of the Early Christianity (Acts 4: 34 "There was no needy person among them..."). God moves us to be magnanimous. Hence the Kingdom concerns our daily life, the Heaven is related to the earth.

Even today Christianity remains the major religion of the globe. Some continents, including the new one, Zealandia (with New Zealand and New Caledonia), continue to remain branded as Christian. Some countries are still considered Christian. True, the world, continents and countries are populated by baptized Christians. We should, definitely, be happy about it.

But we realize that this is only one side of the coin, as we analyze the real situation of these so-called Christian domains. Every year 'the extra' of food (like wheat, corn and milk) is dumped in the sea by governments, companies and farmers in order to inflate prices. This deprives the poor of free, subsidized or low priced food.