We hear a lot about how God needs to be our priority, the number one on our “to-do” list.
But I disagree with that and I want to talk a little bit about it with you today.
He is urgent!
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Matthew 6:33
When we enter a hospital looking for care, we need to go through triage, where patients are sorted and prioritized according to their situation.
If you have a headache and arrived first, you are a priority. But, if someone arrives in an ambulance after you, having suffered an accident, this is an emergency patient, and the urgency to assist him, allows him to undergo care ahead of all the people who are waiting.
Jesus is not a priority in our lives. He is urgency!
He doesn’t have to be number one on your “people I love the most” list, He can’t be on lists, he’s above that and before that.
Putting Jesus in a ranking takes away the true meaning of urgency and pre-eminence that He has.
He is everything!
“And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.”
Colossians 1:18
I feel that, by putting the Lord as a priority, I give myself the freedom to prioritize another subject, another person, another place, another situation above Him at any time.
But the Bible says He must have supremacy in our lives. This word means something above what is around us. It is something superior.
The sense of urgency does not allow me to put anything ahead of Him. Urgency requires us to be in a hurry to search, it puts in our heart the understanding that if We don’t take care of our relationship with God as the basis for everything, the rest will go down the drain.
God is not the first that I love, He is the Love that exists in me. Jesus is not the one I count on my finger first when someone asks about my priorities, my whole body is His temple and I live for Him.
Like breathing is not my priority, it’s a necessity and if I don’t do it, I don’t survive.
He is…!
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31
I can only get through my day and do everything I have on my priority list because of Him. He gave me life, breath, dreams and a call.
When we understand that everything only happens through Him and that everything we do needs to be done as if it were for Him, we no longer put Him first, because we also understand that He comes before the first place.
Every step we take needs to be for Him, every choice we make needs to be based on glorifying His name. Be it something inside or outside the “church” scope.
Take God off your lists and open them only after you have looked up His name!
He is like the paper on which you write your priorities. Without Him, they do not exist…
