So where are your priorities? We would all say that they change when our seasons change. We are born, we go to school, we get a job, then we get a career, get married, have kids, have grand-kids, retire, and then die. REALLY??!!
Is this ALL there is? People tell me all the time that God is their priority, heck I have said it a million times myself. But is He? Well? A priority is only a priority when we act on it. If we say being with our family is a priority then anything we do instead of becomes a higher priority, right?
I know…”But I have to work to survive!” Yes, we do. But we do not have to work to provide a certain “standard” of living. We set our own bar on this one. Like the old adage says: I owe, I owe, so it’s off to work I go…” The more we owe, the more we go…off to work that is. Our obligations become our priorities, and what were our priorities start to become just more obligations…crazy talk, I know, but true.
So how do we change this? Want a right life? Get your priorities right. Stop making excuses…like: I’m BUSY…there I said it. It is the common answer to explain why we do not do what we say is important to us: “I would have been, gone, done if I wasn’t so busy!” “I wish I weren’t so BUSY, then I could do what really matters…”
BUSY is not a reason…it is an excuse. If God doesn’t exist then really nothing matters. But, if God does exist, then nothing else matters. As professed believers we need to begin with the basics – Is God real? Am I willing? Will I act on it?
Making God “the” priority in life is not just left to the “pros”, like only those in full time ministry are responsible to God all of the time. Again – REALLY??!! It is everyone’s job…otherwise the Gospel – the Good News of Jesus Christ would never “go” anywhere. Churches would be circus tents with barkers outside shouting at people to come in and see what they have to offer…oh wait that sounds uncomfortably familiar.
Our “church time” is not the time we relegate to give to some institution on occasion to put us in better position with God. According to the Scripture, we ARE the church. Each a necessary part that makes up Christ’s Body here on earth. We are the chosen vehicle by which God wants to reach a broken world. The Gospel is not just for us to come and get…it is for us to take and go.
If we are the church, then all of our time is “church time”. When our day comes to meet our Creator, I am betting (and I am not a betting sort of guy, at all) that how much “church” we did will have less to do with how much “church” we lived.
God does not need to be our first priority, God needs to be first in all our priorities… Get this? It changes everything when you do…
In His Grip,
Pastor Pat
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