There has been a bit of talk these lst few weeks about oersonal preferences in church and such like.

Some I have found useful, and to be honest some I have found incredibly frustrating annoying and selfish. In any sense, I guess in the wider scheme of things we could say ‘its not actually that important’

Graham, who is one of the people who leads worship, posted this on Friday which I share below:

Priorities

It’s not important to be happy, but to make others happy.

It’s not important to be loved, but to love and be a blessing to others.

It’s not important to enjoy, but to share.

It’s not important to have your own way, but to deny yourself.

It’s not important to find your life, but to lose it.

It’s not important to seek your own satisfaction, but to be satisfied in satisfying others.

It’s not important that God does our will, but that we do His.

It’s not important to live long, but that our life has the right content.

It’s not important what people think and say about us, but what we are before God.

It’s not important what we do, but how and why we do it.

It’s not important to have much knowledge, but to put what we know into practice. It’s not important how we appear, but how we are.

It’s not important to avoid suffering, but that the suffering achieves its aim in us.

It’s not important when we die, but whether we are ready to meet God.

By Eva von Thiele-Winckler