Important
- Jerry Witham
- Feb 5, 2010
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This week was a refreshing week. I got away to a conference with our Student Pastor, Coleman Ford. We got to break away to Minneapolis for the Desiring God Pastor’s Conference. We got the great joy of sitting under teachers like Sam Storms, Eric Mason, Paul Tripp and John Piper. Needless to say, we got a truck load dumped on us.
Scripture continually puts before us the challenge of keeping what is truly important, important. Jesus says, But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6.33). This week Paul Tripp challenged us to make sure that what we were making important is really important. So, are we giving priority to what should be priority?
John Piper said something along the same lines that has stuck with me as well. He shared about CS Lewis and how Lewis never wore a watch, only drove a car once and never read a newspaper. Piper said that Lewis was unimpressed with the present and that he was not pressed with what one might think is urgent. Piper encouraged us that God is urgent.
Is it not true that most of the time what we make urgent or what we make important should not be urgent or important? Let me encourage you just as I was encouraged this week to make God the urgent and the important. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6.33).
