What is important? For some people that read this blog, you might not have the answer to his tricky truth. Some of you might have an immediate answer, some will hesitate but will get to the answer and some people more often than you think, will not have an answer at that very time. Why does this question raise so many different answers in life, and why does everyone’s answer differ? I have asked myself this question many times before. What does it mean? What is the truth? What is the correct answer? Everything that I can think of that will affect the question. The more I think about it, the more I realise that I don’t really know. That bothered me a lot. I know we all have a Sunday school answer but I desired a deeper answer to such an important question. Most people will say family, that makes sense, family is important no doubt about that. Christians will say God is most important and that’s true. God is, and should be the most important “Thing” in life. Both these statements are correct from different points of view, but this is where I start to test the answer. If a person has something that is most important to him or her, how would they react to it? Let’s play this scenario out, and try to put yourself in this person’s shoes changing the answer into yours; A young boy has a dream to be the best football player in the world, and this means the world to him. He grows up watching every football match he possibly can. Now he is ready to play football and he starts to train endlessly, every day that he can. He played in all the first teams he could and he got a scholarship to play pro. Now there is more stuff on his plate that he feels he needs to achieve. What does he do? He pushes through to succeed. Why? Because it is the most important thing for him. Nothing will take it away for him, not if he can do something about that, and in the end he plays pro and never stops going bigger. Why is this the perfect example of how people react of their desires? If you read it again and see that the boy had a passion for football from the beginning, you will see that most have lost this passion. He never gave up, even if a thousand things stood in his way. If we have a passion for something we put it first. We give it our undivided attention and we push through, to gain what we want or keep it. We proclaimed this is what we want and we do not let anyone tell us different. So look back at the question and ask yourself it again. See what your answer is now. Most people will realize that their dreams were something totally different and they had something else in that special place in there heart. So too meet people’s expectations (yes, this is going in a spiritual direction in case you wondered) we Christians say God is most important to us. But to most He is not. We like that our greed, lust, dreams and life is more important. Most don’t go to church but rather stay in bed. We don’t read the Bible but rather watch TV. We don’t pray because we ‘have no time’, we have no passion, and we have no need for God when it comes to self. Don’t see this as a preaching. I am just as guilty. We all are, or were or will be. Yes, it is the most difficult thing on earth to be a Christian. It’s a 24/7 struggle to keep up with what is needed to do. We all crave God, we need Him and He is all we have when we look at things. If we are going to say that God is our passion, we should go to church and read the word of God. This is what is needed to learn His ways and His love and become true people of God. We all struggle and we all fall. Things are not getting better but Jesus had no walk in the park either; to free the people that deserved to be enslaved. We get the easy part. Now play it out. You have the stage, and you have your role. Read your script and do it…
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