Ultimate Priority

For the past week, I have been serving in Machachi with First Baptist Church Camden, SC. What a privilege it is to see God work through even the smallest details of the week! I look forward to sharing a few of the top stories with you, but let me first share a life changing concept that the Lord has been weaving deep into my heart this week.

God is to be my ultimate priority. “Priority” means “to prefer.” So, already knowing the answer and saddened by it, I asked myself, “Do I prefer Christ?” We usually use the word in the context of prefer over something else. In this case, it means prefer over EVERYTHING else.

So as I find myself longing to be able to answer –yes- to this question, but knowing I’m far from a genuine yes, I started asking myself about specific areas and praying for God to change my heart. Do I prefer time with Christ over time with my family? Do I prefer obedience to Christ even if that means long periods of distance from my family? Do I prefer to serve and invest in strangers rather than staying in my most comfortable circles?

Our faithful Lord graciously taught me all week to prefer Christ above anything else- that HE is the only one & that there is none but Christ that ultimately motivates and guides my life. I have been praying that this lesson will be imprinted into my life even if it is difficult or painful.

The Lord used a beautiful song that my dear friend, Jessica, gave me before I left. The song set the message of Christ as my ultimate priority even deeper into my heart. It says, “Lord when you show me who you are, you break into my heart. There is none but you. Forgive me for giving myself away to anything that calls my name. There is none but you.”

If I believe what I say I believe about eternity, about Christ’s promise of eternity, and about Christ’s promise of a future full redemption, then it WILL change the way I view my time here in Ecuador and the next two years of my life at home with my family & dear friends.