Matthew 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Following up on yesterday’s should devotional, allow me to cover would. Would is one of those excuse words. “I would but I already have plans.” “I would but I need to …….” You fill in the blanks.

Where would any of us be if Jesus had said, “I would but I didn’t do anything wrong.” That’s the danger of the would be condition. We do not see the long term consequences. We make choices every day. We make excuses, good and bad. We set priorities and somehow because we have set them we are unwilling to relinquish control.

Is God your first priority? In your heart you might well say yes and mean it. Do your actions support that claim? The reason I can ask that is because I have first hand experience. Are you any different? That doesn’t make us hypocrites, it just means we lost focus on our priorities. It happens.

We live in the now. God is eternal and sees all things, meanings and consequences. So I ask you, if God knows, why would we forget to make time with Him a top priority?

2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

Let this be an encouragement to return to that which has been neglected.