A Reflection On Priorities

When I am focused on material needs

We are told not to worry about what we will eat or drink. Yet we have that tendency because we get our priorities mixed up. We spend all our time trying to sustain ourselves so that we might experience and enjoy life. But we never get around to experiencing and enjoying life because we’re spending all our time sustaining it. Our priorities are wrong.

God wants us to invest in what is valuable. Food and clothes are temporary. They are not valuable; they only support what is valuable—life. We act as though the wrapping is more important than the gift. We don’t recognize real value.

What are we to do with mixed-up priorities and misplaced values? Lay them aside. Look at what God does with His birds and His lilies. They spend all their lives just “being” for the glory of God. We spend all our lives just “doing,” usually for the glory of ourselves. We need Jesus to come along and radically revise our conception of things. He takes our upside-down thinking here and turns it upright, the way God intended it. Let us measure our priorities with those God has for us.

Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:25