January 23, 2013
Priorities
What item on your daily to do list will receive the greatest priority today?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:31-33
“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding in life at things that don’t really matter.”
- Tim Kizziar
We live in a world that is obsessed with the idea of prioritizing. We rank everything from songs to people: goals to tasks: in a seeming list of the top ten or top one hundred or somewhere in between. There is no end of the availability of lists which rank and prioritize any number of things in our world and about our lives.
Yet, as Christians we need to really have only one real priority. While there is nothing wrong with having a sense of what needs to be done in what order when it comes to accomplishing the activities of our daily lives: so many times that list does not leave any room for the cultivation, development and exercising of our spiritual needs and requirements.
We aim to succeed at so many things from day to day, but do we as our first and for most priority in life aim to please God and make our relationship with Him the greatest it can be and work toward allowing our service to Him to be the best that it can be? If not, then I have to wonder if we really have our priorities in order.
He should be first and come first on any list and in any endeavor we attempt if we truly want to experience success that matters and will last the test of time.
Today’s Prayer
Father, may being with and living for you be my first priority in all I say and do each and every day, all day long.
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