What Matters?

What Matters?

            What matters anyway?  Where I live?  Where I work?  What I drive?   My bank account?  My vacation spot?  My children's accomplishments?  What I wear?  How often we go out to eat?  A clean house?  A large flat screen TV?  A nice laptop?    A smart phone?   I love my neighborhood in Willow Springs.  We own four vehicles.  I enjoy having my own home and nice spacious yard.  I have been proud of my children's  achievements.  I own a wonderful Macbook Air and a Droid razor smartphone.   We have money to pay our bills and for that I am thankful.

     Maybe there's more…Does my kids' behavior matter?  Sure, but I cannot control them, just discipline poor choices.  

     But those aren't the things that really matter to me.  What really matters to me is my relationships.   If my relationships are intact, all is right with my world!   First and foremost is my relationship to God.  I have peace in my heart if I am walking in obedience to what I know God wants for me.   When I disobey I am guilty and my joy just isn't there.  Peace and joy return as I repent and accept the forgiveness that God daily gives me.  ( Ps. 103 ) My relationship to my family is next.  I am a peace loving person.  If I have offended, exasperated, embittered,  or hurt their feelings, I will be the first in line to apologize.  If I know I didn't do anything on purpose and I have upset someone, I will still apologize. However,  if I know in my heart that I did and said  what God wanted me to and someone is upset, I'm sorry.   I have to do what He wants. Then I  pray and trust that God would bring them back to me.  Thats what REALLY  matters to me.  I Peter 3:11 … Seek peace and pursue it .