The Main Thing To Keeping the Main Thing

The Main Thing

To Keeping the Main Thing

The main thing is the most important thing

With so many aspects of life to balance – work, relationships, the pursuit of personal passions –

 it’s no wonder that the main thing often gets lost amidst

the lengthy “To-Do List” and the impromptu “Must - Do’s”

Therefore the main thing needs to be the thing that fuels us,

motivates us, and keeps us engaged and interested in life

We must remember to keep the main thing the main thing

We need to stay in relationship with the main thing in all we do

Doing life well comes from our relationship with the Author of Life

To Keeping the Main Thing

The main thing is what is most important.

It is the core, the bottom line, the crux.

It is where things start and where things end.

With so many aspects of life to balance – work, relationships,

the pursuit of personal passions – it’s no wonder that

the main thing often gets lost amidst the lengthy

“To-Do List” and the impromptu “Must - Do’s”.

Therefore the main thing needs to be the

thing that fuels us, motivates us, and

keeps us engaged and interested in life.

God became the Author of human life when He

breathed into Adam and he became a living being.

Jesus said…

 I came that you might

 have life and have it to the full.

Jesus even made the bold statement…

“I am the way, the truth and the life.”

So if God is the main thing

what does that mean to me?

It means that every aspect

of life comes from God.

There is not anything that relates to life

that God does not feed or supply its life.

For Jesus to say…

 “I am the way, the truth and the life”

You and I should be able to

find every answer to life in Him.

Jesus’ statement has to be speaking to

more than Eternal Life after we die.

He has to have every answer to every aspect of life.

So to make the main thing the main thing

we must turn to God with our questions.

Google is a great search engine, but every search

in life must find its answer in the Wisdom of God.

So the first thing we must do to make

the main thing the main thing is to put our

trust in the Main Thing to be the main thing.

For some of us this is a process in order to

establish confidence in a God we cannot see.

We must start with trust or faith

that God is who He says He is.

The main thing must not be

a formula, but a relationship.

I like math because 2 + 2 = 4.

 I like it when answers are always the same.

Although there are formulas and order to

the universe God created for us to live in,

He designed life for relationships.

Love is at the core of who God

is and how God made us to live.

To make the main thing the main thing

we must be in love with the Main Thing.

When I made Sandy the main person in my life

everything in my life changed from that point.

Every aspect of my life centers around my wife.

Because I believe God said…

“It is not good for man to be alone” and

“What so every God has joined together let no man separate”

Sandy is not the main thing,

nor my marriage, God is.

 My relationship with God gives me

the wisdom I need to be a good husband.

Our relationship with God will give

us the wisdom for every aspect of life.

With so many aspects of life to balance –

work, relationships, the pursuit of personal passions

With all the To - Do List and Must – Do’s

We must remember to keep the main thing

the main thing, we need to stay in

relationship with the Main Thing in all we do.

This is best done if we take time at the

start of the day and the end of the day in a

place with no distractions to be with God.

It is in those times of prayer and the scriptures

that you will find God putting in your spirit the

things you will need that day.

 When evening comes you will discover how

to evaluate how to turn the good into better.

Scripture Reading

John 10:10 NIV

 comes only to steal and kill and destroy;

I have come that they may have life,

and have it to the full.

Proverbs 22:2 NIV

2 Rich and poor have this in common:

The LORD is the Maker of them all.

Psalm 16:11 NIV

11 You have made known to me the path of life;

you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Genesis 1:31 NIV

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.