Let's prioritize what's most important.

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In this world, we find many distractions. Even those things that seem good can distract us. Let us always choose to have a better relationship with God and make this our priority.

Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." 38 This is the first and great commandment.

Matthew 22:36-38

We recall again the warning the Lord gave the Ephesian brothers regarding their first love. We understand that this fervor or infatuation had disappeared even though, in serving God, they continue to defend the faith.

This warning the Lord gave the Ephesian brothers extends to our days; it is also a warning for us. It is a warning specifically for those Christians who look away from God and believe themselves self-sufficient in their works, believing that somehow their actions can take the place of a fluid and close relationship with the Lord. The Lord, in these moments, desperately cries out: "I do not want or need your works, I want YOU."

When we begin to prioritize other things, little by little our hearts will grow cold; our perspective changes with respect to the things of God, not those activities. And so, we often turn certain activities into idols. Let us keep in mind that an idol is that which takes the place of God.

You shall have no other gods before me.
4 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me.

Exodus 20:3-5

Let's return to God, let's put the Lord back as a priority in our lives. What's the first step? The first step is to repent and take responsibility for having strayed or prioritized other things. If we have strayed, let's be responsible enough to simply repent and put Jesus Christ back at the center of our lives. Let's rest on his bosom again through the Word of God, study his Word, and pray regularly.

God longs for us to develop an intimate relationship with him daily. Do we have that desire to have an intimate relationship with him? Prioritizing the Lord above all else should be our greatest devotion. If not, we can start right now. We can repent and offer a prayer to God asking Him to rekindle that fire within us. Do you accept the challenge?