“What’s Important?”

“What’s Important?!

Well, I need to figure out why I’m here.

God has a plan for everyone, right?

So I just need to search harder until I figure out what God wants me to do.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa!  Hold up! Now let’s think this through

We know that God is above all

So above all we need to remember that

It’s His plan we’re striving for

So we should start by putting God in the center of our lives

Now let’s look at how He says we accomplish that

He says that the greatest Commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart

And love your neighbor as yourself

If we’re to love the Lord with all our heart, that makes Him first

You might say we already covered that

But this command goes deeper than just making God first

All of us goes to Him

He’s no longer just the center of life

He’s the center of our attention

We’re to follow His rules

We’re to live for Him above all else

The second part of the verse tells us what we should keep next in line

We’re to love our neighbor as ourselves

Who’s our neighbor?

Anyone other than us

Since sin has made us all selfish creatures

Loving our neighbor as our self means loving others as much as sin would tell us to love ourselves

We already said that we are to love the Lord with all our heart

So if we love our neighbor as much as we would want to love ourselves

Where does that put us?

Last! Right where we should be

We give all of us to God and all of us to other people

Wait a minute

If all of us goes to God, how can we give all of us to other people?

But that is what’s so great about God

The joy and peace that He gives in return doesn’t end

We give our joy to other people because we can’t hold in the amount of joy He fills us with

Our cup is so full of joy that it overflows onto others

That’s why we need to depend on Christ

We need to be filled with Him

We have to be emptied of ourselves

All we truly need is more of Him

That’s what’s Important

Less of us more of Him

With everything we do we should be thinking “Is this God honoring?”

“Am I helping someone else?”

“Am I hurting someone?”

“Am I doing this for me?”

All these Questions need to be answered

God longs for us to live for Him because when we live for ourselves

We miss out on the greater joy that God wants to give us

These questions need to constantly be in our minds

Especially this one

“What’s important?”