Priorities

How can I love you and keep my relationship with you alive when my life is so busy?

Priorities.

What are your priorities?

Loving your brothers and sisters.

Jesus' priorities are different that mine.

I am very task oriented and can totally miss the point of love when trying to accomplish a task.

Loving people is not the same as pleasing people.

Loving people is not just making them happy.

It is preferring them and doing what is best for them, even if it's hard.

What is love? Let's look at the Bible.

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 Jn 3:16

Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. 
It does not envy
Love does not demand its own way
It does not dishonor others
Love is not self-seeking
Love is not easily angered,It is not irritable
Love keeps no record of wrongs. 
Love does not rejoice about injustice or evil 
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, 
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes.
endures through every circumstance, always perseveres



1 Cor 13

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.