Priority

During lunch today, my friends and i had one of those rare refreshing conversations we have not had ever since we started work. We acknowledged how work often fills our conversations and crowds out the many other rich personal conversations which dwell more deeply on interests, relationships, activities, thoughts, feelings etc. As we continued our conversation, interestingly enough it brought us to how the attitudes to work should be and how work is not and should not be the ultimate priority in our life. While my friend mentioned the other priorities in her life being family and friends amongst other things, it brought to mind the bible study i just had yesterday and the week before. There are many things we hold dear to and many things which we give priority to. And there must be something truly important to that of life and death that should be our priority. Surely something that counts for eternity ought to mean something worth pondering over. I personally believe that the person who is eternity in itself - God is the most important thing that many of us fail to see and acknowledge. As we look beyond our minute, unimportant selves which sorely need a good ego deflation and a pair of myopic glasses, surely we must acknowledge the greatness of the creation creator. If we care to search the depths of our heart and see the darkness within, then the one who is righteous and pure should gain our utmost respect. If that person is the only one worthy to judge and bestow grace and mercy, then I suppose that means whether i am spared of the punishment i so rightly deserve hinges on this one person. There is such a person and he is God himself who spared us of the punishment of eternal death in hell for the promise of eternal life with him by taking our punishment upon himself. He is the one who deserves to be our utmost priority. It is a hard call... difficult when there are many things we feel that are more important, things we depend on to see us through our days. But if this is true, then he must be our priority. He must be our all.