What are your priorities? Do you have they firmly set in your mind? Have you taken time to think about them? Or are you simply running from one thing to another? Are you a planning kind of person? Or are you a spur of the moment, fly by the seat of your pants kind of person?
There are many people in this world who have no plan. If they have a plan, it is short term, perhaps as short as just getting through the day. Some will plan for the week. Some will plan a vacation a few months out. But all their plans are about activities.
What about a life plan? Setting priorities for our lives is key to living a good life. Those priorities will include putting certain things at the top of our list. For those who teach life planning or setting priorities, often the difficulty is getting everyone to understand they have set priorities, whether they realize it or not.
There are those who seem to fly by the seat of their pants. That’s because their priority is to follow current culture or to be people pleasers. There are others who have set a priority to reach a certain status within the corporate world. They often work long hours and may even drive their family away because of it. There are still others who seek a music or sports profession and spend all their time practicing and going to try outs.
There are many things we can make our top priority. Jesus tells us He must be our top priority for us to be His disciple. Though it appears today’s verse is telling us to sell off all our possessions, that is a misinterpretation. Jesus is telling us that our possessions cannot own us, and they are not to be our top priority.
What does making Jesus being our top priority look like? It will be different for each person, but it starts with focusing on Him every day. It means that all we do, we do for Him. It means we support and participate in His work in this world. That often means participating in the church. It also means that we give up our desires to focus on His. Are we choosing to be His disciples?
I pray we all choose to be Jesus’ disciples. I pray we make Him our top priority. I pray we don’t allow our possessions to possess us and fully participate in God’s work in this world. Be a disciple. Make Jesus your top priority. Give up your possessions. Participate in God’s work.
Luke 14:33 “So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.”
Marty Pressey 