First Things First!

I read the other day that love is simply a human quality.  I didn’t think much about it at the time until now as I ponder about focusing on God today.  It seems lately that things have been hard for so many people that surround me and I having been praying constantly for things to happen in the lives of those people.  For months and months I have prayed for healings, protection, wisdom, pathways to be opened, doors to be closed, and on and on.  However, a few days ago God revealed to me that he does want to heal us, to bless us, to protect us, to give us wisdom, to put us on the right path and in the right place, but what he wants more than anything is for us to want him more than all those things.  What a concept huh?  Putting God before everything else!  I know this is not a new idea or a brilliant way of thinking, but thinking this way and living this way is very different. 

This morning God brought this revelation back to my mind with the following words from my morning devotion… “BE STILL IN MY PRESENCE, even though countless tasks clamor for your attention.  Nothing is as important as spending time with Me…Do not seek Me primarily for what I can give you.  Remember that I, the Giver, am infinitely greater than any gift I might impart to you.  Though I delight in blessing My children, I am deeply grieved when My blessings become idols in their hearts.  Anything can be an idol if it distracts you from me as your First Love” (Jesus Calling---Sarah Young).  All I can say is wow and thank you God for knowing how to put my mind where it needs to be…on You!  So today I lay all those needs, all those concerns that have been weighing so heavily on my heart at the feet of Jesus and I am letting go of them and focusing on my Savior, my First Love!  So love, it is not simply a human quality---it is the quality of my God…for God is love and I desire for that love to flow through me so that no one sees my human quality, but they see God in me!