A verse I’ve been comforted by recently is Matthew 6:33.

“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

I’m honestly not sure why it’s even been so comforting and calming but it has. Over the last year or so, my wife and I have done a lot. I got a promotion, she got pregnant with our first kid, and we bought a house. But while it sounds like we have it all together and things are going great, it didn’t always feel that way.

When we found out she was pregnant, we were both 20 and living in my parent’s house. For months after, we were torn with the decision to actually buy a house that we had been saving for since we got married. We didn’t have our careers figured out (and honestly still don’t) and I’d never even lived away from home, much less with a family of three to take care of. I was terrified of failing my family and putting them in poverty for the rest of our lives. Don’t get me wrong, I was beyond blessed and very much still am. But the enemy will always try to find a way to make you afraid and I hate to say that it worked.

Flash forward to today, and we’re in the home that we were able to buy, while my wife is close to giving birth to our baby boy. We can look around the home and see everything we were blessed with from our friends and family, and job opportunities are starting to make their way to us.

I don’t think Matthew 6:33 is giving me so much comfort though, because I see everything I have and I relied on the Lord for everything to be added. I think that verse has just given me what I think I really needed this whole time: peace in knowing that the one and only thing I need to worry about is seeking Him.