Let's make a list. What do you feel you need to be involved in, to do something about, to speak to someone about? What matters? What is wrong with the world? What is on your mind? Take out a pencil and paper or phone and write to yourself. Are you upset about failing schools? Failing marriages? Women wearing pants? The lack of water in Mali? Puppy mills. Micro plastics? Corruption in some administration? Climate change? The war in (your choice)? Trump? The spread of Marxist thought? School bullies? Lack of discipline? Home owner associations overstepping their bounds? Karens? Homelessness? The lines at TSA? The dollar or yuan as reserve currency? Monsanto? Gas prices? Go on with your list. What are you concerned about? What are you going to attack? Would you go to a meeting, talk to your neighbor about it, join a protest, go out to vote? What are you going to spend your time and energy trying to fix? What is important? What is the most important thing for you to be involved in?
Paul said in First Corinthians 2:2 that the most important thing he saw was the Milta and man's need of salvation. Not this faction or that faction, not politics or the economy but the lost. There are people who are not saved. There are people who have not heard that the Milta has come, that the recapitulation was adhered to, that Jesus Christ is Lord over heaven and earth and that we can surrender our lordship unto Him--that peace with God and life in His way is here, available for the recognition of His lordship.
For Paul, nothing else mattered. The world clamors about this and that so-called important thing. They are distractions. "We are all going to die! We can't let them do this to us," they insist. Well, yes, we will die. Best die doing what Jesus DID--preach the reward.
