Setting Biblical Priorities

Christian Working Woman Transcript

Thursday, May 10, 2007 - Setting Biblical Principles

You may think that setting biblical priorities is hard to do when so much of what you do has no spiritual content and yet, you seem to have no choice. Going to work, household duties, mundane tasks and errands–they take up so much time. How can you find time for biblical priorities when you must do so many other things?

Well, a wonderful truth in Scripture is that even mundane things have significance when we have the right attitude toward them. Earlier we discussed about setting priorities which have eternal significance, such as investing time in God's Word, which will last forever. What else will last forever? People will last forever.

Therefore, investing time and energy in people should have a high priority. Now, these mundane things you have to do–aren't there usually some people around when you're doing them? Sure, we're interacting with people all the time, and if we start to see those people as eternally significant, we will discover little and big ways to invest our time and energy in people, even while we're doing other things.

As you drive along with your children, going here and there, you have valuable time to communicate with them, to share your values with them, to play Bible games with them, to talk about what's important and what isn't. While you work with people on your job, the concern and care you show for them makes that secular activity very sacred. When people become a high priority in our lives, we will discover endless ways to reach out to them, even in the midst of other activities.

A young man in our church left a budding career with an accounting firm to go back to school and get his teacher's certificate. He wants to teach high school. He will probably never earn the kind of money that was available to him in an accounting profession, but he feels his life can have a great impact on young people as a teacher. And knowing him, he'll be one of those teachers you never forget. I have repeatedly encouraged him and told him how pleased I am to see that he has set his priorities by eternal principles.

Now, please don't misunderstand me. You can certainly work for an accounting firm and care about people. We need godly caring people in every kind of position, but God has led him in this direction and he hasn't allowed money considerations to determine his priorities.