{"id":51,"date":"2007-02-23T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-06-16T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:31:07","slug":"god-is-not-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/god-is-not-a-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"God is not a priority&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must be thinking, &#8220;What?? How can you have a title like that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was challenged today.\u00a0  A friend and co-worker shared devotions from Philippians.\u00a0 Paul was talking to the church and asking that they would exalt and magnify Jesus in everything they do in life.\u00a0  That leads to this question:\u00a0  Is God just a priority?\u00a0  In other words, does your &#8220;checklist of life&#8221; look like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>God.\u00a0  Check.<\/li>\n<li>Family. Check.<\/li>\n<li>Work. Check.<\/li>\n<li>Etc&#8230;check.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How often do we as\u00a0 followers of Christ make a list like this and then leave God at the top and forget about Him.\u00a0  We should be challenged to make our &#8220;checklist of life&#8221; look like this instead:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>God.<\/li>\n<li>God.\u00a0  Family.<\/li>\n<li>God. Work.<\/li>\n<li>God. Etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Our life should revolve around Him, He shouldn&#8217;t simply just be our top priority.\u00a0  Everything we do; love, life, work, play, hobbies, spare time, everything should revolve around magnifying Him and making His name known.\u00a0  We exist to make Him famous.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I was challenged today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/god-is-not-a-priority\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must be thinking, &#8220;What?? How can you have a title like that?&#8221; I was challenged today.\u00a0 A friend and co-worker shared devotions from Philippians.\u00a0 Paul was talking to the church and asking that they would exalt and magnify Jesus in everything they do in life.\u00a0 That leads to this question:\u00a0 Is God just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}