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December 21, 2024

Prioritization of a Man's Roles

Series: Men's Breakfast: Godly Excellence in a Man's Roles

Jim Stone taught us how to handle conflicts in priority from each of the various roles in our lives.  

Our first priority is set forth in Matthew 6:33, “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all things will be added to you.” 

  • All other priorities are distant second priorities.
  • “Seek” means that we need to actively pursue his kingdom and righteousness
  • This “seeking” needs to be with urgency and passion.
  • We are to continually “seek,” it is something we should always be doing.
  • We must realize that He is the King of that Kingdom…and we should be seeking Him
  • We should be willing to give up everything for Him, just as those men in Matthew 13:44 – 46 sold everything they had to gain the treasure and the pearl of great price.

We can be assured that if we seek and draw near to Him, he will draw near to us (James 4:8a)

We can also take as a sobering warning that if we aren’t diligent, and we let our priorities drift from Him, or have unconfessed sin that we don’t surrender to Him, our lives can be “shipwrecked” just as surely as a ship that is overrun with unseen barnacles and is no longer seaworthy.  

As we work out how our “other” priorities are balanced and fit in with our Matthew 6:33 priority, we should:  

  1. Ensure that all we do glorifies him
  2. Seek God’s instruction, always seeking what He wants us to do, every day
  3. Be willingly controlled and governed by our King – as the chief end of Man is to Glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

Finally, we should take a “retrospective” view of how we interact with those in each of our roles (such as our children, our wife, our employer, employees, etc.).  Think how we would like them to evaluate us at the conclusion of our lives,  as they saw us live out Matthew 6:33.  Then we should seek to have our actions aligned with how we would want them to evaluate us.    

other Messages in this series

November 16, 2024

September 21, 2024

August 17, 2024