The “Inquiring Photographer” of the New York News asked six persons: “What is the most important thing in your daily life?”
The first person said: “Meeting people, all kinds of people”; the second: “My girl Theresa”; the third: “Driving a truck through the streets of the city without having an accident”; the fourth: “Serving a full house of diners their food”; the fifth: “My daily work”; and the sixth: “Rejoining my family after the day’s work is done!”
It is singular how not one of the six placed his spiritual condition first. The Lord Jesus said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt 6:33).
Yet the report is true to human behavior. God’s complaint against the people of Noah’s day is true now, and will be true when Christ returns: “Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the flood came” (Matt 24:38). It is a persistent trait in human nature to allow secondary matters to crowd out the things of real importance.
A believer could say, in the language of Jude: “The most important thing in my daily life is the building up of myself on my most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping myself in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
Young Timothy might have put the same thought in these words, “exercising myself unto godliness.” Surely the spiritual is more important than the physical! “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” (1 Tim 4:8).
--Tom M. Olson
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