Christian Living
Priorities:
I. God
II. Others
III. Self
Priorities Defined:
I. God
A. Worship
1. Prayer
2. Scripture
3. Obedience
II. Others
A. The Lost
B. The Gathering
III. Self
A. Subjection to the Kingdom
B. Personal enjoyment (within the confines of
Kingdom Righteousness)
Thoughts:
This is not a 'TO DO LIST' of obligations for the purpose of arriving at No. III (self), as if it were chores with 'free time' as reward. No! This is life, it is existence!
All things that will complete me are found in No. I (God). God is supreme!
Prayer appropriates what God has already done and propels one to the scriptures. Much like the one who, after purchasing and trying on a new garment, immediately goes to the mirror, so it is with prayer leading one to the scripture.
The scripture is the mirror of what one is. It is a true image reflected from God's own perspective. This image is not dependent upon one's belief or faith. No, it is proclamation; It is prophetic utterance from the one, who by His very word spoke things into being.
At creation, the void did not believe or have faith that it was to be the waters and the life. No, it was just by virtue of the words, 'let it be'. It was, because God said it was.
In the same way that prayer leads one to the scriptures, so also does the scripture lead one to prayer, which is the appropriation of what is.
Now, if one peers into the divine proclamation of what is and appropriates it in prayer, would not that one conformed to the image, act like the image?
Obedience is not dependent upon one's discipline in acting out what is. No, obedience is the natural outworking of the peering and the appropriating.
All else (in the list of priorities) beyond this is redundancy.
Prayer, Scripture, and Obedience sum up all Spiritual life.
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