There are analogue and digital watches and clocks.
Some prefer the analogue timepiece, while others like the digital look.
For the analogue timepiece, there is something worth reflecting about the ticking of the second hand.
If we do some calculations, that second hand goes 60 ticks a minute, 3600 ticks an hour, 86,400 ticks a day, 604,800 ticks a week and 31,449,600 ticks a year.
Now that is a lot of ticking. Yet that humble second-hand shows us something.
It takes one tick at a time.
That is what Jesus is telling us in today's gospel. Putting it simply, it is: Take one tick at a time.
We don't have to worry about how many ticks we have to accomplish in a year, or in a week, or in a day or even in a minute.
That is all taken care of by God.
What we need to do is to let love, joy , peace, patience, compassion, kindness, generosity start ticking in our lives.
That is what is meant by setting our hearts on the Kingdom of God and on His righteousness.