Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

Do you know the song by Marvin Gaye? Ain't nothing like the real thing. How true. Sometimes we try so many thing to replace what we really want and need but they never measure up to having the real thing.
Why should we give so much to pusuing God? Matt 6:33 says we should seek first the kingdom and everything else we need will be added to us. Seek First. Is the first thing we seek what God wants? Why should we seek God first?

Because there ain't nothing like the real thing. Sure, we can be kinda happy, be kinda satisfied, have kinda good relationships, but they don't compare to having the real thing. Like the scene in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon and Robin Williams are having their conversation on the park bench. He says to Will that if he asked him about love, he'd probably quote a sonnet from Shakespeare, but that he had no idea what it was like to really love someone. He said that if he asked him about Michelangelo, he'd come up with all kinds of details, but that he had no idea what it was like to stand at the Sistine chapel and to look up at that, to smell what it's like to really be there.
Why give so much to pursuing God? Because there ain't nothing like the real thing.