Setting Your Affections

Order your life around the thing that is going to matter most when you take your last breath on earth.

Essential Principle

• Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
• Colossians 3:2

Four Reasons Priorities are Essential

• They determine the best use of time and resources
• They chart the direction for making pro-active change
• They allow the ability to think realistically about situations
• They stimulate us to do things in order of importance

Two Difficult Things for People To Do

• Think realistically about their situation
• Do things in order of importance

Six Broad Areas of Life

• Work / Career
• Personal Growth / Hobby
• Health / Physical Well Being
• Social / Community Interaction
• Family / Spouse
• Spiritual

Everyday Essentials

• Living for the essentials means seeing the goal and then adjusting everything accordingly
• Essentials are revealed by your conversation, your calendar, and your checkbook
• What is essential to you is revealed by your actions, not your words
• When determining your essentials, God is not simply number one; God is everything!
• The older one gets, the more one discovers that fewer and fewer “things” are really important
• Order your life around the thing that is going to matter most when you take your last breath on earth