Nothing More

What is your number one priority? Your career/income? Your health? Your family? Yourself? God? Don’t just answer “God” because you know it is the right answer, think about it: God knows your heart and everything you do, so you are not telling Him anything He doesn’t already know. So what is it?

All to often we think a life of faith means one can only love God and nothing else, and that is just plain wrong. This kind of thinking limits who God wants to be in our lives. Some feel that if we can’t do it completely perfect, then why bother to try at all. We talk ourselves into giving nothing because someday we will give Him all we have - as soon as we’re done using what we need, that is. In other words, as soon as we complete what we need to complete first, then we will make God our number one priority.

This is incorrect logic. God does not work our way, on our calendar: in other words, serve us. He is God. God expects us to love lots of stuff and lots of people: we were created with emotions just for this purpose. Knowing we were also created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), we must then understand that God has emotions as well. God created us to love, and to love passionately, but there is a priority He asked us to maintain: Love God most (Mark 12:30).

God needs to be our number one priority, not over everything else, but in everything. This means God is asking to be first in your career, your finances, your family, and in you. So God is not asking us to love Him and nothing else, God is asking us to love Him first in everything. This is why we sometimes wonder where God is at in certain areas and times in our lives: we expect the God who made us to make us His number one priority.

You want God to make you His priority, then you have to make Him yours first.

In His grip,

Pastor Pat