Priorities

 

A teacher from my high school years once shared this quote to me and a group of other students and I have never, ever forgotten it. Well.. sort of. Lately I haven't taken this particular lesson to as much heart as I used to and I know I have missed out on some blessings because of it.

 

Time to get my priorities back on track.

 

The Book of Mormon contains a scripture that says something quite profound on this subject. May I share it with y'all?

 

Jacob 2:18-19

 "But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them..."

 

Sooooo pretty much. Put God first. Like, as in, before anything else. Then after you do that, then you seek for 'riches'.

 

'Riches' can be interchangeable with really any word, or generalized to mean anything someone would seek after. Jobs, talents, money, friends, health, knowledge, etc. etc.

 

As newlyweds I'd have to say the thing that we seek after with the most diligence would have to be furthered education and better paying jobs. That can be a big headache to us sometimes (a lot of the time, ha). We focus most of our time and energy and lives to reach those goals, and honestly I don't think enough energy has been focused on seeking God and his kingdom, and because of that we haven't seen as near as much success as I know that we could, or receive the peace and stability that we so dearly seek after.

 

I know without a shadow of a doubt that the times in my life when I have put God first, He has blessed me with not only what I needed, but sometimes even exactly what I wanted! I sometimes imagine God to be sitting up there in Heaven, just waiting to give us heaps of wonderful blessings, but because we haven't asked.. or because we haven't quite sought after him as much as we should, he isn't able to give them to us. What a shame that is.

 

So for the fifth day of this happy challenge shindig I got going on, I am making a goal to remember this truth. To put God first, before anything else. Then life will be much happier :)