Priorities
In the business world you hear a lot about priorities, and putting first things first. I believe that is true. Put the most important things first. Just like everyone else I struggle to” keep the main thing the main thing” But at least I know what that is. It is worshiping God.
Genesis 12:6-8 (NIV)
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
Abram had his priorities right. He built and altar to the Lord, signifying his life of worship, praise and prayer, and pitched his tent signifying his career. Most people give their best effort to BUILD their tents (careers), and then just PITCH their altars (their worship) to God.
Over the years I have struggled to keep my priority of worship there. I have to work at:
Reading the bible and praying in the morning before I; turn on the computer, read the paper, start planning (or worrying) about my day.
Not allowing discouraging things to make me stop praying.
Not allow well meaning people to take that time I have set aside to worship with phone calls, emails, and things that seem like crises but are not.
Hope you are over coming them too.
I read where John Wesley had a number of Self-Examination questions. Three of them were;
1. Do I give the bible time to speak to me every day?
2. Did the bible live in me today?
3. Am I enjoying prayer?
Man! Pretty challenging, and there were 21 of them... Maybe you have found this out like I have. If I give God enough unhurried time in the morning to read his word and pray, I sense His presence. And when I sense that, I am always strengthened. I wish I could say I am unhurried every day, but I am not. But knowing how good it is to spend that time keeps drawing me back.
Psalms 73:28 (NASB95)
28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works.
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