All these things will be added to you

Matthew 6:33

When the kingdom takes first place, daily needs find their place without frantic rearranging.

Kingdom · Day 5

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Today’s Scripture

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33 (BSB)

Rabbit holes

Where today’s Scripture leads

Psalms 23:1-3
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
Comfort and provision imagery that comforts but shifts focus to shepherd care.
Philippians 4:6-7
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Instruction about prayer and peace that directs attention toward anxiety management.
Colossians 3:1-2
Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Teaching about setting hearts on heavenly things rather than earthly concerns.

Hebrew today

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

judgment; justice; right; rectitude; ordinance; decision; privilege; due

Brown-Driver-Briggs (Strong's H4941)

Micah 6:8

The reading

All these things will be added to you

THE PROMISE YOU FORGOT

You've been so focused on the command—"Seek first the kingdom"—that you missed the promise.

Jesus didn't just tell you what to seek. He told you what happens when you do:

"And all these things will be added to you."

All these things. The things you've been anxiously chasing. The security you've been desperately searching for. The peace you've been trying to curate.

You've been seeking them first. And coming up empty.

But Jesus says: When you seek the kingdom first, everything else is added.

Not earned. Not achieved. Not accumulated.

Added. By grace. By the King who provides.

THE REVERSAL OF EMPIRE LOGIC

This is the great reversal.

The empire says: Seek security first, and maybe you'll find peace. The kingdom says: Seek the kingdom first, and security is added.

The empire says: Seek wealth first, and maybe you'll be satisfied. The kingdom says: Seek the kingdom first, and you'll have what you need.

The empire says: Seek power first, and maybe you'll be safe. The kingdom says: Seek the kingdom first, and you'll find refuge in the King.

You've been doing it backwards. Chasing everything except the one thing. And wondering why you're still empty.

But the kingdom inverts the logic: When God comes first, everything else finds its proper place.

WHAT GETS ADDED

So what gets added when you seek first the kingdom?

Not necessarily wealth. Not guaranteed political victory. Not a curated life with no suffering.

The funnies

From the archive

How to read

Practical guides to reading and studying the Bible.

Getting started

Read a whole book before you read a single verse

Every book in the Bible was written to be received in one sitting. Almost nobody reads them that way.

Pick a short one — Philippians, Ruth, Mark, 1 John.
Read it start to finish without stopping to look anything up.
Write one sentence on what the whole thing seemed to be about.
Only then go back for the verse that caught you.

20–40 min

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Two travellers on a road, joined by a stranger

Method

Ask who is speaking, and who is being spoken to

Most misreadings are not theological. They are a promise made to someone else, read as though it were addressed to you.

Name the speaker. Name the audience. Both are usually in the sentence before.
Ask what that audience would have heard — not what you hear.
Ask what has to be true of God for the line to make sense.
Then ask what it asks of you.

10 min

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The crossword

Answers from scripture · no timer, no streak

Tap a square to begin.

Across

His, not as the world gives (John 14:27)
King who married Jezebel (1 Kgs. 16:31)
The father called for the best one (Luke 15:22)
Herdsman of Tekoa and tender of sycamore figs
Day of the sound like a rushing wind (Acts 2:1)
His is easy, and His burden light (Matt. 11:30)
She treasured all these things in her heart (Luke 2:19)
Keeper of sheep whose offering was accepted (Gen. 4:4)
Village home of the herdsman prophet (Amos 1:1)

Down

Eldest of the three sons of Noah (Gen. 5:32)
Mother of all the living (Gen. 3:20)
He was asleep on a cushion in its stern (Mark 4:38)
The foolish man built his house on it (Matt. 7:26)
Jesus sat down beside it, weary from the journey (John 4:6)
What He called the bread He broke (Luke 22:19)
Branches taken out to meet Him (John 12:13)
The Lamb opened the first of seven (Rev. 6:1)
Vessel of gopher wood, pitched inside and out (Gen. 6:14)

The catechism corner

Heidelberg, Q90

What is the rising-to-life of the new self?

Wholehearted joy in God through Christ and a love and delight to live according to the will of God by doing every kind of good work.

Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Q90 · Psalm 51:8 · Romans 6:10 · Galatians 2:20

The practice

Send someone the verse that stuck, with no commentary.

Attaching an explanation usually means you are sending it about them.

1 minute

The daily prayer

Job · Job 42:1-6

¹Then Job replied to the LORD: ²“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted. ³You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. ⁴You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’ ⁵My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You. ⁶Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 42:1-6 (BSB)

The proverb

The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Proverbs 10:32 (BSB)

The red letters

A saying of Jesus, verbatim

To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Revelation 3:21 (BSB)

The season

Ordinary Time — the long green season after Pentecost

From the day after Pentecost until Advent begins in late November — roughly half the year, all summer and autumn.

"Ordinary" here does not mean unremarkable. It comes from the same root as "ordinal" — these are the counted weeks, numbered one after another from Pentecost all the way to Advent. It is the longest season of the church year, roughly half of it, covering the whole green stretch of summer and autumn, and it has no headline feast to organize it. That is deliberate. The festival half of the year announces what God has done — birth, death, resurrection, Spirit. Ordinary Time is where the church practises living as if all of that were true, in weeks that look exactly like the ones before them. It opens with Trinity Sunday, naming the whole mystery at once, and it ends with the last Sundays turning toward judgment and hope, just before Advent starts the year again in the dark. Most of the Christian life is lived here. The season simply admits it.

The 17th week after Pentecost counts the church’s long walk of ordinary faithfulness between the Spirit’s arrival and the year’s end.

Green — the color of things that grow, worn for the long season of ordinary growth.

The gallery

7plates · tap any to look closer

Self-Portrait in a Flat Capafter RembrandtA bust-length old man faces out from a square panel, wearing a wide flat cap banded in gold over abundant grey curls, a dark coat with a shawl collar, and a scarf touched with red at the throat. The ground behind him is a dense woven crosshatch of blue on cream. His eyes are large, level, and a little weary, and they hold the viewer directly.

The verse, rebuilt

Tap the words in order to rebuild the verse.

From the archive

An older reading, resurfaced

Day 4Establishing reverence for God as the foundation of all wisdomRead it →

Where is this from?

3 questions

A verse from Scripture — tap the reference you think it comes from.

“But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.”

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.”

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”

The hymnal

Unknown, 1890

What a friend we have in Jesus

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear; What a privilege to carry Ev'rything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Ev'rything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful, Who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our ev'ry weakness, Take it to the Lord in prayer!

Are we weak and heavy laden, Cumbered with a load of care?-- Precious Savior, still our refuge,-- Take it to the Lord in prayer. Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer; In his firms he'll take and shield thee, Thou wilt find a solace there.

Bible in a year

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Joel 2:28-32

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Voices

From the church’s shelf

Jesus Christ bled for them also. Why dost thou not set thyself against them also? If thou hatest sin as sin, every evil way, thou wouldst be no less watchful against every thing that grieves and disquiets the Spirit of God, than against that which grieves and disquiets thine own soul.

John Owen · Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers

The coloring corner

Daily Bread · crayons or the dropper — no grades

One loaf, one board, one morning.

This was the Daily Bread for September 15, 2026.

EUANGELION

All these things will be added to you

Rabbit holes

The reading