Priority In Life

"Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That's the most sensible way to serve God.

"Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him." (Romans 12: 1, 2 -Contemporary English Version)

"I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]." (Romans 12: 1, 2 - AMPLIFIED BIBLE)


I believe there are at least four priorities to life:

• Finding God's purpose for our life,
• Knowing what to do to accomplish His purpose,
• How to live effectively,
• Succeeding in the right purpose.

Before we can discover and embrace God's purpose for our lives, and be conformed to the image of Christ, we must give ourselves wholly unto God. We must offer up the sum of our lives as a living sacrifice unto God. We must hold nothing back, and give Him everything that we are. And so long as we withhold even one part of our heart from God, we make it impossible to truly become conformed to the image of Christ. No doubt, offering up your life as a living sacrifice can be a difficult and painful thing to do. But God wants all of us, and not just some of us.

The essence of discovering God’s purpose for our lives is to learn to stop thinking like this fallen world, and instead start learning to think like Jesus Christ. For how can we discover God’s purpose for our lives if all we do is think worldly thoughts?

We cannot think like Jesus would think, and as a result, walk, talk, and live like Jesus, unless we begin to renew the thoughts of our minds through the word of God.

I found this acronym for P-R-I-O-R-I-T-Y (Purpose Requires Impartation Of Revelation; It Transforms You)