Whats really important is not important

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5-23-19 Thursday

 

outrace a bear! Today is about knowing what is most important and what is not important. 

 

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List of topics for money matters- pick a few and let me know!

 

• The history of money
• Social Security
• Investment Philosophies
• Behavioral Finance…anchoring, etc
• Financial Advisor types and fees
• Accumulation phase of life
• Distribution phase of life
• Socially responsible investment choices
• Estate Planning 101
• Money in marriage
• Money as a single guy
• Insurance Planning 101
• Charitable Giving 101
• Getting debt under control
• Buying a home
• Buying a car
• Separating financial news from noise
• Considerations for small business owners
• Considerations for those with stock options
• Considerations for inheriting money or winning the lottery
• The 5 W’s and H of Savings

 

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DISCERN

The Unimportance of Practically Everything

MOST OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE-OUR ACTIONS,

AND ALL OTHER FORCES, RESOURCES, AND IDEAS

HAS LITTLE VALUE AND YIELDS LITTLE RESULT; ON THE

OTHER HAND,A FEW THINGS WORK FANTASTICALLY

WELL AND HAVE TREMENDOUS IMPACT.

Richard Koch

 

So my comment here is not: what is the most important thing in our life???

But rather can we discern wether or not the answer to the question is in line with our lives. 

DO WE IN FACT KNOW THE FEW LITTLE THINGS IN OUR LIFE THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE? and are we doing them. 

 

We know the answer: A relationship with God though Jesus Christ. What that really means is time in his word and prayer. 

 

AND YOU SAY: Right, got it. I’m following you here! But do you know the true difference from experience? 

 

If I told you I have a lucky bottle cap and if you carry it with you everything will always work out the best for you. And lets say you take me up on this bet and you pocket my lucky bottle cap… and sure enough over time you realize I am right! This bottle cap is truly the thing that makes everything come together and ultimately successful. HOW WOULD THAT BOTTLE CAP CHANGE YOUR PRIORITIES AND HABITS?

*I will tell you how… you would constantly grab your pocket and make sure the bottle cap was on you. You would be in the habit of sticking your hand into your pocket… you would rub the outside of your pants pocket to make sure you could feel it in there… and if you lost it the world would stop until you found it. It would go beyond habit, and beyond lifestyle and would just be “who you are”. 

      There lies the challenge: that bottle cap symbolize’s our prayer life. If we have a life of discernment we realize that prayer is an absolute essential… it is a must. It is the oxygen of a life filled life! and we would continually be on alert to make sure we kept our prayer life vibrant. We would constantly check our heart and mind just like we constantly checked our pocket for the bottle cap. 

 

But have you ever lived long enough in the realm or habit of praying where you really truly know the difference? 

Have you built up the discernment, the spiritual feelers in your life to know that you are lacking intimacy, lacking his presence in every area?  

 

You cannot discern that which you do not know or have been exposed to.

I remember the very first X-ray of mine that I looked at… I knew it was my neck, but had no other discernment then that.

NOW AFTER I a have lost count 200 plus X rays… I know what to look for.

 

Galatians 3:3

3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

 

  - Paul is asking them a tough question… have you lost the ability to discern what is best in your life? what will lead to the most Godly life? Can you not discern that you are not in the sweet spot of results! 

 

The overwhelming reality is:we live in a world where almost

everything is worthless and a very few things are exceptionally valuable. As John Maxwell has written,"You cannot overestimate the

unimportance of practically everything.”

 

I add: and you can’t overestimate the stupidity and foolishness of not living within what IS most important!