Priorities

As I drove in to work this morning I had a thousand things on my mind. I was going through my to do list in my head and feeling overwhelmed as I pondered each project I had somehow gotten involved with. Everything from work to church commitments seemed to consume my thoughts. It was an overcast day this particular morning. It had that blue and gray look that said rain was on its way. As I made my way down the highway lost in my thoughts I was suddenly brought back to reality when my eyes were drawn to a rainbow. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I just stared and stared at it. The colors were beautiful and it looked like a ladder to the sky. As I gazed at the colored sky I realized my attention was now heavenward and not on my many tasks at hand. I felt as if the Lord was saying to me. Focus. Your attention needs to be on me. All of these other things will fall into place. I need to be the priority. I felt ashamed that I had been so caught up in my plans for the day. My mind was trying to work out a way for all the things to get done in a short amount of time. Had I just turned them over to the Lord and not taken back I may have had the peace I so desperately needed. It made me think of the verses in Matthew 6. I’m thankful that the Lord got my attention in such a delightful way. To Him be the glory.

Do Not Worry Matthew 6:25-34 25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?

28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Lori