The Uncompromisable Christian Priority

WORD 2day: Saturday, 2nd week in Easter time

April 30, 2022: Acts 6: 1-7; John 6: 16-21

Jesus was with the disciples, speaking to the people all through the day and after having fed them and been in all that din, he sends the apostles away to the other shore but he himself goes alone to pray. Something that we cannot miss to see about Jesus: he was very firm on his priority!

The Apostles, as they began their ministry amidst the new found faith, they had their model clear and straight: Jesus! Their priorities were challenged at every step and thoroughly. But they had a Master and Friend who never gave up on his priorities. Added to that he never judged them on the basis of his priorities, though he constanly challenged them on it. 

The first reading brings to our attention, one of the occassions where the apostles seem to have kept that uncompromisable priority, they learnt from Jesus: the primacy of God. When there were so many important things to do, all of them good and all of them for the right ends, they knew they cannot consider less the priority of praying and preaching. That was uncompromisable for them.

Nothing can substitute our personal relationship with God: we may claim to be working for God and working in the name of God...but a personal relationship with God is not the same as all of those! How many persons, congregations and communities of faith have really lost their basic orientation, getting lost in a sense of activism. Our priority for the primacy of God cannot waver, cannot be compromised! It is a fundamental relationship that gives the essential sense of our life ...the human-divine relationship, the chief priority of a Christian life.