I was talking to one of my mentors the ot
her day (Joe Champion) about some issues I was dealing with. He reminded me of the true priorities in life. Sometimes we can get so busy that prioritizing isn’t a priority … survial is.
The heart pumps blood to all other areas of the body. It allocates where the blood flows to and what the priorities are. When a part of the body is hurt, the heaviest concentration of blood flows to the area that needs it the most to help it to heal quickly. Our organizations run that way. If a department gets wounded or is getting weak we put our resources there to help make it healthy again, so that it doesn’t damage the rest of the organization. We also need to work the same way, but it is important to know that in order for this to work properly the heart must be healthy it self. Ultilmately you can live when you get cut or with only one kidney or without a limb, but if your heart goes that is it. You have no chance of survival if you loose that organ. It pumps life to every other part.
All I want to say is that I was being reminded not to bypass the most important part of life. Keep your heart healthy … feed it. Spend time with God everyday. Does that extra hour of work really mean much if your spirit is running thin. Not just the check-it-off-your-list type of time with God, but the real kind of time the comes from the desire to be more like Him, act more like Him, the want and passion to know more about His character and to expose more of your self to Him. Letting Him in to be able to shine light on the dark areas that need fresh blood flow, the encouragement to take the right steps, the life giving experience with a loving God that wants to be more a part of our lives than we ever thought before. This is what allows us to give life to the hurt that may be around us … pain in our own lives … priorities to our chaotic days … the hurt in those right next to us and those who God is able to place us next to that we may have never met. It is truely better to give than recieve, but we can’t give unless we guard, protect and nurish our hearts. This is not a priority, but THE PRIORITY.
Sean you are so right. this is THE PRIORITY. I needed a reminder of this