How Discipleship Leads Us To Change Our Priorities

In our spiritual development, whether seasoned believer or curious seeker, a part of our discipleship process involves some changes, namely in the area of our priorities. As societies and people have changed over time, so too have our priorities and their associated concerns. Nevertheless, we habitually continue to structure and revolve our lives around the “main thing,” so to speak. It is seemingly a natural course of action to focus on our priorities, but as we grow in our faith, we might find that our priories are not necessarily the priories of the father. As we deepen in spiritual maturity, we learn that how Jesus modeled discipleship in his obedience to the father is the same calling for us in the present: called to grow concern for God’s concerns, and to lay our own at the foot of the cross.