"The plight of all preoccupied people is wretched, but most
wretched is the plight of those who labor under preoccupations that
are not even their own, whose sleep schedule is regulated by some-
body else's, who walk at somebody else's pace, and who are under
instructions in that freest of all activities — loving and hating. If
these people want to know how short their life is, let them reflect on
how small a part of it is their very own."
-- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Paige often says, "Live your priorities." I agree. You must live your priorities, because if you don't, you will be living someone else's. Life is priority driven. You are either initiating based on yours or responding to someone else's. God has given us governance of ourselves. It is our job to organize our time and energy around His glory and the good of our neighbors. We must submit ourselves to His designs. We must make Him our top priority and His priorities our first priorities.
Joshua 24:15
Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
If you don't choose for yourself this day whom you will serve, it will be chosen for you and no one serves the Lord by accident. If you do not take the initiative to follow God you will follow someone or something else. If you are not swimming against the current, you will flow downstream and as Chesterton reminded us, even "a dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
Everyone lives someone's priorities.
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