Back to the Most Important

If an honest evaluation was done on each one of us, what would the results show is of “first importance” to us? What do we do and think about when we have time to do or think about what we want? Excuse work (not excessive work), sleep (not excessive sleep either), and eating (again, not excessive eating) for a moment. What are you passionate about? Humor? Talking? Movies? Excessive amounts of necessities? Ice cream? Sports as participating or spectating? Internet goofing or surfing?

If you answered any of the above or something similar, you have to change. We are in a war, and the question is not “do I have impure passions?” but rather “which passions are impure and to what degree?”

Paul tells us his passion.

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3-4).

How do we end up really believing that Jesus is the most important? How does He Himself become our passion?

Consider Him. If He is as good as we read of Him in the Bible, merely being around Him and thinking of Him will do it (if we are genuinely converted).

Remember this verse?
“For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them" (Galatians 3:10).

If you were ever not a Christian, you relied on your own works at some point. You thought you were pretty big stuff. Then you ran into God. And the truth came out. And the “why do bad things happen to good people?” question was thrown out in favor of “If God knows every word, thought, and action that I did yesterday, then why did He not destroy me in my sleep last night?!”

Remember that early helplessness? Remember it again.

There was one who came at that time and He was mighty to save. And if you know Jesus, He must have saved you. You were helpless and sinful. Still are, I might add. And yet “But God.”

Do not forget Him. In all your reading and living, do not forget. Read to find Him and to know Him. As this year will soon end and you will have completed reading your Bible, do not leave Him behind. I hope that this year will have encouraged us all to pursue Him till death do us join together.

I write this as reminded by Paul, “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Cor. 11:3).

Not a devotion to church, nor to morality, nor to any of the good things He offers. But to be wrapt up in knowing and loving Him. If we seek Him He will let us find Him.