Where You Lead

Number One Priority

“Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.”

Wow. That’s powerful.

Jesus said that we must give up everything to be His disciple. Everything. He didn’t say “most stuff” or shiny things.” He said everything.

I don’t think that Jesus wants me to walk away from my husband or my children, my granddaughter or my parents. What Jesus is saying is that God must be first in my life. I must be willing to walk away from anything that keeps me from my first priority - God. As long as I keep God as number one in my life, everything else will follow suit.

The problem is that some things in my life don’t enhance my relationship with God and other things just get in the way of it. Those are the things that I need to discard. I don’t make changes easily and I don’t like throwing things out, so pruning my life is quite a task. I know that God’s pruning of my life will make my entire existence more abundant and fuller than I ever imagined. I just need to make God my top priority and everything else will work out just fine.