Your highest priority should always be your relationship with God and fulfilling His will for your life. Don\u2019t let that priority \u2018drift\u2019<\/i>. A sobering illustration of this occurs in Scripture. A prophet pretended to be a soldier who was given custody of an important prisoner. He claimed he was told, \u2018If by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a020:39\u00a0NKJV) In spite of the warning, he said he allowed his prisoner to escape because he had other jobs to do. \u2018\u201cWhile your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.\u201d Then the king of Israel said to him, \u201cSo shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.\u201d<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a020:40\u00a0NKJV) The prophet then revealed the king had judged himself!<\/p>\n
Keeping your spiritual priorities in place is your<\/i> responsibility and no one else\u2019s. If you don\u2019t do it, you will pay a high price. \u2018But I pray each morning,\u2019 you say. That\u2019s good, but do you take time to listen to God before you rush into your day? Some of us have deleted from our Bibles and our thoughts those Scriptures that command us to \u2018wait on God\u2019.<\/i> <\/p>\n
There is a work going on in your life right now. You may not be fully aware of it, but without it you will never be qualified to handle what God has in mind for you. The Bible says, \u2018Jesus often withdrew\u2026 and prayed.\u2019<\/i> (Luke\u00a05:16\u00a0NIV) Spending time with God is the price you pay for hearing from Him and doing His will. Spiritually speaking, there is no shortcut to any place that\u2019s worth going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your highest priority should always be your relationship with God and fulfilling His will for your life. Don\u2019t let that priority \u2018drift\u2019. A sobering illustration of this occurs in Scripture. A prophet pretended to be a soldier who was given custody of an important prisoner. He claimed he was told, \u2018If by any means he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}