There is a good story from years ago about a top executive with a telegraph company who went on a trip. It was extremely cold outside when he arrived at the bus station, so he went into a local telegraph station hoping to get warmed up. When he got inside, however, it was cold. He noticed there was no fire in the fireplace. He said to the young telegraph operator, "Why don't you build a fire in this place and warm it up?" The young man said, "Listen mister, I'm too busy sending telegrams to build fires." The man then told this boy that he was the vice president of the company and that he wanted him to send a telegram to the home office at once. The message was, "Fire this man immediately." A moment later the young telegraph operator brought a load of wood into the office and began to build a fire. The executive asked, "Young man, have you sent that telegram yet?" The young telegraph operator said, "Listen mister, I'm too busy building fires to send telegrams."

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 The point is that somewhere in life we have to set priorities. We have to decide what really matters and make certain that the really important things are done. Time with our family, service to our community, attention to our work, relaxation, self improvement, Bible Study and prayer - we could develop a list of important issues that would go on and on. Somewhere we must draw a line of what is really important in our life: Jesus said [Mt.6:33]   “…seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these thing will be given to you as well."  

When we look at these words of Jesus, we immediately find them to be the most revolutionary that human ears have ever heard. ". . . seek first the kingdom of God . . . ." Even the most spiritually-minded of us argue the exact opposite, saying, "But I must live; I must make a certain amount of money; I must be clothed; I must be fed." The great concern of our lives is not the kingdom of God but how we are going to take care of ourselves to live. Jesus reversed the order by telling us to get the right relationship with God first, maintaining it as the primary concern of our lives, and never to place our concern on taking care of the other things of life.

“…. do not worry about your life . . ." ( Matthew 6:25 ). Our Lord pointed out that from His standpoint it is absolutely unreasonable for us to be anxious, worrying about how we will live. Jesus did not say that the person who takes no thought for anything in his life is blessed—no, that person is a fool. But Jesus DID teach that His disciple must make his relationship with God the dominating focus of his life, and to be cautiously carefree about everything else in comparison to that. In essence, Jesus was saying,  "Don’t make food and drink the controlling factor of your life,  but be focused absolutely on God." Some people are careless about what they eat and drink,  and they suffer for it;  they are careless about what they wear, having no business looking the way they do;  they are careless with their earthly matters,  and God holds them responsible.  Jesus is saying that the greatest concern of life is to place our relationship with God first,  and everything else second.  It is one of the most difficult,  yet critical,  disciplines of the Christian life to allow the Holy Spirit to bring us into absolute harmony with the teaching of Jesus in these verses.

It would be great to so have lived,  and on your epitaph so inscribed:  “When He came there was no light;  when He died there was no darkness.”  I like that.  Isn’t it time  you let Christ  help you light the dark places in your life?  It is time to move out of: “OUR COMFORT ZONE.”

><)))>  In "HIS" Service

Bro. Roy