Do you discern which one is priority or do you just jump into it?

The world we live in today just makes us busy. We are constantly running from one thing to the other and can barely find time to “put our feet up”; yet God is not making a day longer than twenty-four hours. While one is still struggling with all the legitimate things to be done, the devil then increases your busyness by adding more chores. Indeed it would appear to me that the devil has found a way to further complicate our lives by keeping us very busy both mentally and physically so that we are so overwhelmed, we get confused. This is indeed another way of wearing out the saints so that when he then attacks, we are too tired and overwhelmed to respond appropriately.

Daniel 7: 25KJV “And shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws”

The truth is there will be times in every life when you have so many responsibilities and/or obligations you can’t meet them all at the same time so that they all have to be ordered. If you try to do everything at the same time, you will most likely end up in a big mess. We therefore need to be able to rightly order how responsibilities and/or obligations placing and dealing with them in their order of importance. The problem is usually with prioritizing the most important ones. Not prioritizing right can upturn everything and the truth is; only God through the Holy Spirit can guide us into proper correcting. Some things are just more important than others depending on various factors like season, time, and the one who passed on the obligation. Such factors vary from season to any other thing. 

Luke 17: 15 “one of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, Praise God!”

Moreover, if we correctly prioritize, the fallout of the resolution of one matter may be the resolution of others down the line. It becomes most difficult to prioritize though when all the obligations appear to be priority or when priority appears to contradict what you have been taught or have always believed; but the Holy Spirit knows all things and is able to decipher the true priorities like in the story of the ten lepers where one leper on finding that he was healed returned first to thank Jesus and as a result received wholeness. Jesus had instructed them all to go and present themselves to the priest but this one realized that priority for anyone that was healed was gratitude to the healer so that presenting oneself to the priest becomes secondary. It was just to fulfill the law.

Acts 6: 2: “So the twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said, “we apostles should spend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program.”

Making less important things priority can cost so dearly and upturn our lives. The Apostles in the early church realized that though it would not make sense to stop sharing the word and take to sharing food, they had to fix the food problem to be able to effectively carryon their responsibility of sharing the word of God. Mundane as the food sharing matter was, it could have upturned everything and so fixing it was priority at the time. Some would have wondered why they did not just ignore such irresponsible and petty people who were fighting over food in the face of all the important things that were happening to believers at the time.