But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33)
Ranking is the arrangement of items in a specified order. It is the notion of organizing items in a preferential order; to highlight the items on the scale of importance to a specific notice. Ranking creates orderly arrangement so the first item is first in the table of preference.
Where there is no specified order, unqualified items gain undue preference and selection of best in the class becomes greatly impaired. Judgement is obscured and data integrity is murky as there is no sense of order to treat what is first, first. Where there is no order, confusion is imminent.
It is important that we have order in our lives; God does. The Bible says our “…God is not the author of confusion but of peace…” (1 Cor. 14:33). Everything God does is succinctly organized that is works so smoothly and peacefully. There is quietness in everything God does that it so noiseless yet very effective. The serial and specific outline of creation typical of our natural environment speaks of the acute sense for order that built the Earth and the Cycles that sustains our Earth. The construction of the Earth rotation in specific and chronological order is the template upon which time and calendar is built. We take cue from the natural order installed by God to define and align our lives and activities on the Earth. What an orderly and efficient system our God built.
God’s design is so granular that any upset of the order triggers massive and extensive regress of the Earth structure with severe and far reaching consequences. Take the depletion of the Earth ozone layer for instance. Man’s industrial and chemical evolution has caused monumental pollution that perforated the protective layer that God in His judgment and wisdom wrapped the Earth with to insulate the Earth’s surface from unnecessary and dangerous rays from the Sun. The same effect is felt in every area where and when Man interfere with Divine and Natural order.
Consider this for a minute, God in wisdom says, “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness…”; this order is what aligns all other things Man may desire or pursuit. We must gain the wisdom in this ode and live. How true to the calamity and disorder we see and experience in our World today because we violate Divine order. We reverse the order and seek things first and when nothing works or things break we revert to God, if we ever did.
Beloved, let’s re-arrange our lives and activities according to the outline order; God first and like magnetic pull, that serialization of God being first will by auto setting fix and compel alignment of all “these things” or all other things as the Bible says in sequence no other arrangement could comport.
Gain order; put God First.