I repeat-- God #ONE.

Why is it so important to put God first? I'm sure there are many, many, reasons to this question.. I woke up this morning with one in particular on my heart and it has to do with: desire.

When we wake up and make an effort to put God before absolutely anything else, whether its reading His word, listening, or praising Him for awhile (as He deserves!), we're sacrificing. Time is precious to us, it is a sacrifice when we set things aside for Him. It is our actions saying "I love You Lord and I'm willing to put You first even when I don't feel like it..because my desire is to please You! My desire is for You."

This just.. naturally balances life. Its how its supposed to be. How exactly?

There's more peace because priorities are correct (God on top!). You're not scrambling around for some "filler." See we all have a God hole in our heart, it can't be filled with anything but God. When we try to fill it with anything else its like trying to fill in a circle with a square or a square with a circle:

As you can see, there will always be gaps remaining; we attempt to stuff things in the gaps to get us through... but it will never completely satisfy. Moreover it'll take more and more to get to that point of "satisfied;" satisfaction never truly comes, but the distraction will do its job.. for a little while.

Keeping Abba on top is important because He is our Creator... everything about us, our lives, our other relationships, our thoughts, little things we do each day... everything about life flows first from Him. We cannot truly embrace it when we have not first embraced Him.

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.
Isaiah 64:8 (NASB)