“What is Your # 1 Priority?”
Romans 10: 8-15
Summer is quickly approaching and for many of us it is a time where we slow our hectic pace and take time to “catch our breath”. It’s also a good time to reflect and look at our priorities for the remaining half of the year.
Remembering
what we have experienced of the love Jesus has for us through His sacrificial
death and the glory of Easter, we are able to see what God’s number one
priority is: His love for us.
John
Wesley, the 18th century Anglican priest who founded the Methodist movement,
was putting Thomas Coke, known as the Father Methodist Missions, on a ship to
his new assignment. Mr. Wesley was sending Coke to give leadership to a rapidly
growing church in the new world, which we now know as the United Methodist
Church. Tradition tells us that Mr. Wesley gave Mr. Coke only three words of
advice, "Offer them Christ." Years later, Mother Teresa shared a
comparable statement with a reporter while trying to sum up her life’s work by
telling him, “I give them Jesus.”
In Romans
10:15 Paul is telling the disciples that for them there is no greater priority
than for them to share their faith with others. The power of the 15th verse is
most moving where Paul proclaims, “How beautiful are the feet of those who come
to share the good news of Jesus Christ.”
John
Wesley’s advice, Mother Teresa’s statement and the advice of Paul are still
relevant to the church and to each of Jesus’ disciples in this day. It is true
that there is no higher priority for our lives than to offer Christ to the
world.
We should
make His #1 priority our #1 priority. We should love others so much that we
will give them Jesus and help lead them into a life of discipleship.
Shalom,
Rev. Pat
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