Proverbs 24:27

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about priorities

Proverbs 24:27 (ESV)

Prepare your work outside;

get everything ready for yourself in the field,

and after that build your house.

 The truth in the above proverb is: Set your priorities correctly if you want success. The word picture we have here is that we must get a source of food ready before we attempt to build a home to live in. What good is building a home if you starve to death half-way through the building process. A wise person set’s their priorities straight. Don’t try to jump ahead of the things that need to be done first. You wouldn’t attempt to put the trusses on the top of a house where you hadn’t first laid the foundation. Don’t try to do something in your marriage, your job, your hobby, your community until you first lay out the proper priority. Prioritize you life and success will follow. Since we live in an instant gratification society the temptation is to want to have the house before the tilling the land.  We tend to treat the urgent over the beneficial in our society.   Sometime might be important, but it might not be of great benefit.   Decisions in life are about making choices between different priorities.  The hardest thing in life might not be to choose the good and avoid the evil.   That is a choice we at least know what we SHOULD do.  The harder decision is the choose between two good things.  Either choice might be good.   In the above proverb we are admonished to choose the one that gives us the best chance to also choose the other.