Setting priorities

Morning: Psalm 107:33-43; Genesis 35:1-20; I John 3:11-18

Evening: Psalm 33; John 11:1-16

When obligations conflict, you weigh your priorities. Jesus risked death, appearing in public to save Lazarus. His disciples wanted to protect him, but Jesus’s mission to demand justice from the political and religious authorities was more urgent. By raising Lazarus from the dead, he would demonstrate that threats of death from misguided and unjust authority would not stand in his way. He would defeat the power of death on the Cross. Moreover, Jesus’s quest for justice and his victory over the power of death now help us to set priorities for our lives that will bring the earth to wholeness.