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Colossians 3:1-3   So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. 2 Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ – that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. 3 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life – even though invisible to spectators – is with Christ in God. He is your life. (The Message)

Why don’t we get it? Why do we let every other thing in this world take precedence? Anything and everything seems to come before living our lives as disciples of Christ. We mumble some prayer of supposed salvation and return to our worldly lives supposedly secure in that 60 seconds of a lifetime. We see everything else in our lives as priorities above asking the Lord what He would have us do for the day. The distractions that Satan puts in our pathways are successful in keeping our priorities askew. We think every work demand, recreation demand, stress and strain demand, is more important than seeking God’s Will for our lives for each day. We are doing life all wrong; we are doing life on our terms, doing life in the reactive tense rather than the proactive tense. We are doing life our way, by our strength, by our pride and priorities. That is not how God designed us to live.

Charles H. Spurgeon once said. “If the convert declares that he knows the Lords Will but doesn’t mean to attend to it, it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.” Whoa…. Like uttering a prayer and returning to the lifestyle with no evidence of Jesus Christ in our lives? Nowhere in the Bible did Jesus say to utter a prayer; He said to “take up your cross and follow me.” He called us to make him the number one priority in our lives; the top of our every day list; by which all else is measured and accounted to. God knows our hearts, and the levels of love and priority of which He holds there. What lies above him on your priority list today? Have you sought Him today in prayer and His Word?

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me. Surely you must see how our world is so unstable on so many fronts. Surely you must see how our world is so far from God. Our world is in desperate need of a Savior, and one has come, yet is he being cried out for in the wilderness as John the Baptist did? Is He being proclaimed by his disciples that walk the streets and the internet each day? Is He being presented as the Lord of this life, into eternal life, or is he an afterthought as a get out of jail free card? The get out of jail free cards is only in a fantasy game; we will all stand before a Holy righteous judge one day and give an account of our lives to him. What will you say, when He knows the truth, before you speak it?