April 11, 2010

Priorities: April 9, 2010

April 9. TODAYS WORD FOR FRIDAY APRIL 9, 2010.

PRIORITIES

DEFINITION:

Earlier in time and occurrence; the right to proceed others in order; rank or privilege.

SCRIPTURE:

Here is the conclusion of the matter. Fear God and keep His commandments. Ecclesiastics 12:13.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Very few people today set priorities for their day to day living, let alone for their goals in life. As adults and parents we need to have priorities for our marriage, for our children and for our own personal and family activities. The problem is that when one does not set priorities basically nothing is accomplished and at the end of the day one wonders where the day went and what was accomplished.

The Bible has a lot to say about priorities. In the Old Testament Solomon sums up so well in the last chapter of Ecclesiastics what our priorities should be in life. He says to honor God and obey His commands. This is the most important thing people can do. God knows everything that a person does even the things done in secret. He knows the good and the bad and he will judge everything that a person does. The things we do are evidence of our priorities. This advice from Solomon in the verse above should remind us what our first priority should be making God’s priorities our priorities.

Webster defines priority as the right to precede others in order. God has that right and He should precede all other things and people in our lives. Jesus had much to say about priorities in the sixth chapter of Matthew. He tells us not to lay up treasures upon earth. We need to realize that everything on earth is temporal and if the eyes of the believer are focused on these treasures the life and character of the believer will be shrouded in moral darkness.

Jesus also told us in verse 21 that “where our treasure is, there will our heart be also.” Again if our priorities are in the temporal things of this world we will be wandering in darkness because we will be spiritually blind to see what God wants us to do. A person’s aim in life, or better, his priorities in life, determines his character and this affects his or her relationship with God.

And in Matthew 6:33 we read one of the most clear cut verses in the Bible as to what our priority in life should be. It reads: “But seek you first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added on to you.” God’s interests (seeking first His Kingdom) are to be first in our lives. So if we “seek God’s righteousness first,” we meet the condition of God’s blessing for our lives. And then the last of this verse gives us the guarantee of God’s provision to us (all these things shall be added on to us).

As you set your priorities in life from a spiritual perspective read Philippians 1:21 and make it your purpose for living: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

LEARNING:

Our memory verse for this week is found in Luke 2:52.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and men.

PRAYER:

Help me, dear Lord, to set my priorities each day first to honor and serve You. Make me set as a priority the reading of the Bible and the communication I must have with You through prayer. Give me the leadership needed with my family so that together we will put You first in all of our lives both in our words and our deeds.

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