Keeping up with writing articles
for my blog has not been the easiest thing especially in the past few weeks. The
several things that compete for my time daily have made it a real struggle; yet,
it is something I believe I should do and writing it gives me great pleasure. The
truth is, we only have twenty-four hours in one day so there will always be
several different things competing for our attention. The things we choose to
do each day, to a large extent, determine whether or not we will make a success
of life. If we neglect the ones that are of utmost importance for those that
could wait or can even be left undone, then we have major challenges. Setting
our priorities right daily is one of the most important things we can do for
ourselves daily. From day to day, our order of priorities may change and not necessarily
because any particular ‘to do’ is less important than the other but at a particular
time or day, one thing is most needful and it is important to make the right
judgement call as to what is most needful and do it. We must learn to
prioritize correctly.
James 4: 17 “Remember it is sin to know what you ought to do and then
not do it.”
To not do what is right is bad
inspite of the excuse or reasoning that made one postpone. To not even know
what to do is worse which is why God gave us a guide in the person of the Holy
Spirit who would always let us know what we ought to do. As I get older, I realize
more and more that prioritizing correctly is a must for success in life. Even prioritizing
correctly when to speak can make or mar a request. It is of utmost importance
to know what is appropriate and the appropriate time to do the appropriate. Prioritizing
wrongly can be very costly and may cause irreparable damage. Though Esther
understood the magnitude of the problems the Jews faced, she realized that she
need to seek God and His counsel for her to have good success with the King
Ahasuerus.
Proverbs 3: 27 “Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s
in your power …”
Hebrews 5: Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training
have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
Good is not necessarily nice; it
is the most appropriate thing, done or said at the most appropriate time.
Something may be nice but inappropriate and as such, not good. A good thing
done at the wrong time, may become very wrong. Prioritizing correctly is our
responsibility and a major one. It is one of those things God won’t do for us.
He does all that is required to help us correctly determine what is needful, including
even giving us a Helper in the person of The Holy Spirit; but He will not make
that judgment call for us. To priories correctly, God has left us to engage our
brains whilst remaining connected to our God given Helper who would provide us
with enough information and grace to aid us as we prioritize. If we allow Him guide
us, He would ensure that we do things in the right order. Indeed a wise man is not often the man who
knows everything but one who knows enough to appropriately discern what is
right to say or do in the moment. It is not always right because it sounds
nice. There is an appropriate time for everything; it is best to act when it is
right to do so and/or speak when it is right to do so. Any act out of its
season cannot be in sync.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 “For everything there is a season, a time for every
activity under heaven.”
Prioritizing correctly starts
with giving God His rightful place. If God is in charge in any life, we are
guided right. He takes the job of being Lord seriously. His reason for taking
on that job in any life that yields to Him is to ensure that such lives come to
“and expected end” which is always good because God never does evil so that
everything orchestrated by Him for His children is good. The fact that He is
Lord in a life suggests that the life is fully yielded to Him and does not
resist Him. It takes a deliberateness to yield to God and remain yielded to
Him. To have Him and our relationship with Him at the very top of our priority
is not something that happens carelessly because there are several other things
competing for that place. We must make effort to ensure that our relationship with
Him always has pride of place in our lives. When believers do not prioritize
their relationship with God correctly, most of their decisions would be wrong
and they would ultimately end up less than God planned for them. Let us reorder
our priorities if need be, that we may fulfill our destiny.
