We all have our list of important things. (Whether we know it or not.) We also have our list of urgent things. These are the things that get instant attention. Often the really important things don't get this urgent status in our lives. Like when a preacher is preaching a truth that could very well make an eternal difference in one's life and a teen or adult chooses to treat a text message as urgent by transferring his attention to it. What is critical is knowing what to give urgent and important status to.
I believe Jesus had in mind for us to make the Great Commission both important and urgent. With hundreds dieing every minute and most going into eternity without knowing Christ, it is urgent that they hear the most important message they could hear, the gospel.
Great churches make the Great Commission urgent. Great Christians make the Great Commission urgent. When we get to heaven, all the trivial things of life will seem just that and the really important things will be clear, as well. What sets one person or one church apart from another is the spiritual discernment to recognize the really important things now and to give them urgent status.
Will you take some time as a new year approaches to examine what has been important in your life? Is your important list what you want it to be? Is is what God would have it to be? And finally, are you making the important things urgent?
Just Saying
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