2.What should be Christian Priorities?
- Yesterday, we saw that Jesus always priorities doing God’s will in any way;
Today, let’s continue with what makes many prioritize God’s word because of their self-ambitions and needs.
Listeners back in the OT, Moses told the murmuring Jews that the reason why they are suffering in the wilderness is because they have their priorities against God.
Moses told them their mandate would change when they reached the Promised Land. Remember God’s word to Moses when He told him to tell Pharaoh to set the Israelites free to come and serve Him.
Let me remind you of what Jesus said: that the reason why God is not leaving Him is because He is doing God’s will; ironically, the Jews were not doing what God expects!
Listen! If doing God’s will makes God not leave you, then not doing His will makes Him abandon you like He abandoned His Children because they were after meat, after Egypt, and water but not the living water.
When you are in Christ, just as Jesus said, God will never leave you. Allow me to quote the time when the Jews were encamped on the cross, Balaam and Balak failed to curse them. What if they were in their priorities?
Many times, most of us get in trouble and take our rightful solution, which is wrong, before God, e.g., going to witch doctors, but Jesus always goes by God’s way, making God be with Him even if it means pain!
Let’s look at John 4:5, 7, 27: “He had to travel through Samaria,” 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her. 27 Just then, His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” Carefully, verse 4’s Phrase “He had to.” means Jesus knew a Ministry was awaiting Him. The disciples never met Him; they were hungry and looking for food, so they wondered as Jesus spoke with a woman. They are wondering because they never planned to go to a woman, but it’s because God directed Jesus.
One day, Jesus was teaching about Him being the bread of life, and most of the disciples wanted to quit because they didn’t understand the teaching, but Jesus asked them in John 6:61, 67-69. Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? Therefore, Jesus told the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away, too, do you?” Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who we will go to? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God!”
Peter chose to follow Christ because Jesus follows God’s will, and anyone who follows Him ends up in heaven! Many may quit, but what is your personal decision?
