What Matters

What Matters – What we do, and how we think, are determined by what matters to us.  Where we spend our finances, and where we spend our time, depends on what is important to us. When it comes to God, the same is true. How much time we spend praying, seeking the Lord, reading God’s Word, growing spiritually, and doing what pleases God, is based on what matters to us.  Here is where the problem begins, the Lord has already told us that our thoughts and ways are not like His. So, what matters to us is different than what matters to God, which causes us to be indifferent to God, and we do what does not please God. This is the reason living in Christ and by the Spirit matters.  When we come to Christ, an area we struggle in is, putting God first. We have been taught to only think about what is important to us, to only work on achieving what matters to us. When we give our lives to God through Christ all of this must change. It cannot be about what we want and desire, it must be about what matters to God.  God created us and gave us life, if we put the Lord first, he will take care of all our needs. We don’t have to place things ahead of God, in Christ we have all we need. Only God matters, only God’s Will is important.