What Are Your Priorities?

"Then Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men." So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him."  (Luke 5:10a-11)

The challenge with the world’s priorities is that they seemingly make sense. We can rationalize and spiritualize the world’s priorities, but that doesn’t make them more desirable from an eternal perspective.

When Jesus called the fishermen to follow Him, He had just performed a miracle with a huge catch of fish. Amazingly, when the boats were brought back to shore, it says that they “left everything and followed him.” Do you ever wonder, “Who cleaned and stored all those fish?”

It would have been easy for the future disciples to say, “We’ll join you as soon as we get this job done.” It sounds very responsible. But in this case, it would be the wrong choice. The disciples did the right thing by dropping everything and immediately following the Savior.

Many times in outreach the world’s priorities creep in. Sometimes it comes in the form of doing a task instead of stopping to pray with someone. Other times it’s closing down a ministry because the money doesn’t seem to be available, even when you know God wants you to do it.

At some point we have all given in to the world’s priorities all around us, to the sorrow of our Savior.

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