(2:4) What are we to seek? People strive daily, spending their time, money and best efforts going after fame, recognition, a life of ease, and more money. But we who love and fear God are to call out for insight and understanding, for God's wisdom. This should be what you desire to seek after.
God's Spirit lives in you, if you are a child of God, and your desires will - supernaturally - be different from the desires of those who do not know and love our Creator God.
(2:7) Your faith should match up with your works. What you say you believe - God's Truth - and your actions should match up. This is living a life of integrity. This is opposite of what we call hypocrisy. If you are living a life of integrity, then you must be leave the results of this to God.
"He is a shield to those who walk in integrity". There will be times when you obey Jesus, yet not be rewarded for it, at least it may not appear this way to yourself or others. In fact, all may seemingly go "wrong" for you in this life, in the world's view. Think of Jesus and how our Lord was falsely accused, enduring great shame and injustice on His way to and during his suffering for us on the cross. And you, too, may suffer and die.
But God is your shield. You are saved, you are being saved, and you will be saved because of Jesus. Your life is hidden, as the Bible says, with Christ in God. As you seek God, loving and fearing Him alone and not fearing people, your body may suffer and be killed, but the real you lives eternally with Him, your shield. Remember Paul's words, "to live is Christ, to die is gain."
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