Priorities

If you were to draw a list of the things that are important to you, what would it look like? For most people it would probably include things like :

• Leisure
• Socialising
• Work
• Family
• Friends
• Religion/Faith

The big question then is in what order would you put that list? What are the most important things in your live?

I would hope that family and friends would come pretty high on the list, work and play probably would come just below them but where would you put religion and faith? If you are someone who is dismissive of such things then it is going to come at the bottom of the pile, in all likelihood. If you attend church however it could be seen to come into several different places in the list. If you are a committed follower of Christ then this becomes a little more complicated. It is obvious that our faith should be the most important issue in our life and thus that God should be at the top of the list, he is after all a jealous God and takes exception to other things being seen as being more important than him. For proof of this look at many sections of the old testament - the people of the covenant spend 40 years in the desert for a reason (see Exodus).

The big question is how many of us actually do this? The complex bit is that God should actually envelope the list, he Should be important in every item of the list. In everything we do we should be enabling God to work in our lives. As we spend time with Friends and Family, God wants to be there. As we work, God wants to be there. As we go through good and bad times, God wants to be there. You cannot and should not confine God to a list.