Going Back To Basics

Hello People!!!!!

Hope you had a fantastic weekend and if you are in the United Kingdom area I hope this heat wave did not drive you slightly insane as it did to me...

Oh well we thank God for it all.

I'm quite early posting this week but it's all good as I feel this post is an appropriate post for an early post :-)

Yesterday I got talking with #AOD# and it ventured into one of our deep conversations. Now when we get into such conversations I tend to withdraw slightly and think of my words well before I speak so that I don't look silly.

Anyway he asked me a question; very simple yet I took it overboard with over thinking the question. The question was:

What is my(His) uppermost priority?

Now this question is a straight forward question that requires more often than not a single word answer.

Now here I was silent for about 30seconds thinking to myself what answer does this man want to hear from me now. The first thing that came into my mind I said to him but it did not seem to be the right answer and then I went ahead to say the next thing that came to my mind. The first was a word (name) the second was more or less an explanation.

For both answers they were wrong. And I think God was using #AOD# to remind me to go back to the basics. The simple answer he was expecting me to say was GOD.

Now why I didn't say this first I do not know. In everything I do right down to my twitter bio I describe myself as one whose aim is to please her master: that is my main purpose. And here I was being asked the same question by my other half and I had fumbled. I felt totally disappointment in myself. Not because I had failed to give the correct answer to #AOD# but because I felt I had let God down. It's like I had been going on with my daily routine of do this, pray this, read the bible this, go to church this and I had totally left out the person behind the wheel of it all.

I thank God for using #AOD# to remind me about what is really important. Pleasing GOD and doing His will ought to be and is my uppermost priority in life. It is sometimes easy to get so caught up in the rat race of life that one forgets that simple principle. May the Lord forgive me.

All through the night I tossed and turned with guilt. I have asked God to forgive me and I know He has. He then took me to two scriptures in the bible:

Matthew 6:33

'But seek FIRST his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well'

Romans 8: 28

'And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his PURPOSE'

These two scriptures I have read previously over and over again. But reading it this morning showed me that in putting God as the topmost priority the chasing of life's pleasures becomes irrelevant as these are automatically added to me once I acknowledge his SUPREMACY and Leading in my life.

The verse in Romans 8 also reiterates that as we put God first(By virtue of our love for Him: following His will and direction for our lives) we become part and parcel of His purpose and in becoming part and parcel of that PURPOSE all things ought to and will work together for our good.

I am so going back to basics. I urge you to please take some time to ask yourself this question? If you can truly answer this question and sincerely know that God is not the first thing that comes to mind please I encourage you to take the step I have taken and ask for forgiveness and GO BACK TO BASICS.



Selah

VirtuousKelly
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