What is Important?

By Corey Ewards

If we were asked, most of us would answer immediately: family, friends, health and a roof over our heads.  Having said that, for many of us, trivial things distract us and take more focus than they should and we begin to lose focus of what’s really important because we have ‘more pressing issues’.  Families and couples drift apart from each other because everyone is ‘too busy’ pursuing their own agendas.

However, when we face tragedy or hardship, we tend to rally together and seek those relationships that have been neglected.  We re-prioritize our lives and (at least for the duration of the tragedy) put all our efforts into returning to those things which we first identified as being important.  People often say that the closest their family has been for years was immediately after tragedy or in a time of extreme hardship.  We readily talk about tragedy or hardship bringing people together.

Also, many turn to God in difficult situations.  They pray to Him in their moment of crisis to try and get them through.  Why is it that people very often turn to God at their most desperate moments?  It is not because they have never believed, but rather they have believed in Him, but have ignored His call on their life and now they are worried that they are ‘not worthy’ of God’s help or of God’s mercy towards them.  The simple reality is that many find comfort in prayer, even if they proclaim themselves as unbelievers.

It’s important to understand that we don’t have to wait for tragedy to strike.  We don’t have to wait until things are desperate to know that sense of peace or comfort.  God is love and His love is towards us always.  We simply need to call on Him and He will freely give it.

The Church is about families.  The Church is about proper functioning between parents and children, husbands and wives.  There does not need to be a tragedy to remind us of what is most important.  We can know the satisfaction of getting our priorities right every day of our lives.

God’s promise is that in Christ ‘all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' (Acts 3:25)  By being joined to Him and to His people we are included in this blessing.