02/08/2026
Seek First His Kingdom, and All Else Shall Be Given
In the First Reading, Isaiah invites us with a beautiful, radical promise: “Come, eat and drink without money, without cost.” It is a message that turns the world’s logic upside down — for where we see scarcity, God sees abundance. If we truly trusted this promise, every fear, every worry, every struggle would be met with peace. The people in the Gospel left their homes, their daily concerns, their comfort zones — and they followed Jesus. They came to listen, to seek Him first — and He did not send them away empty. He fed them, and not just enough: they were filled, and twelve baskets of fragments remained.
This is the heart of God’s word today: our struggles often begin when we follow our own will instead of His. We carry anxiety, confusion, and burden because we put our plans, our worries, our desires ahead of God — but when we turn to Him, listen to His voice, and follow where He leads, He provides abundantly, beyond what we could ever ask or imagine. As He promised: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” God knows every need before we speak it. What matters most is not that we get what we want — but that our wants become aligned with His will.
Even in our world today — where so many who claim wisdom bring confusion and suffering — those who simply follow the Lord are given a wisdom far greater. Like St. Catherine of Siena, unlearned by the world’s standards yet made a Doctor of the Church by God’s grace — it is not human knowledge that saves us, but humble obedience to God.
The Psalm reminds us: “The hand of the Lord feeds us; He fills all things with good things.” And St. Paul reassures us in the Second Reading: nothing — no trouble, no hardship, no uncertainty — can ever separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Whatever we face, if God is with us, we lack nothing. He does not merely give enough — He gives overflowing.
