There are so many priorities in the church. Depending on where you go, will determine what the priority is. None of them is wrong, but very few of them, if any of them are prioritizing what the Lord wants prioritized. Worship is a priority, preaching is a priority, community is a priority, giving is a priority. None of them is bad. People are to be prioritized, but to the Lord there is on priority that is above them all and I wonder if we have missed His highest priority.

Ezekiel 20 speaks of God’s highest priority and it is spoken of in light of Yahweh bringing Israel out of Egypt and wanting to give them the most beautiful land He could find for them, a land flowing with milk and honey. Multiple verses in this chapter speak of God’s priority, and verse 44 says it this way, “You will know that I am the LORD, O people of Israel, when I have honored my name by treating you mercifully in spite of your wickedness. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

The highest priority of God is His name. His name is His character, His nature, the way He treats people, His name is of utmost importance, yet I think we as the church say His name but have not prioritized His name. We have become casual with the Name of God. We have taken for granted the character of God and how He treats us. We have become to familiar with a God we do not really know.

His name is what we represent. His name is on our foreheads, we are marked by His name. His name is what we call on when we pray. His name is on many of our buildings, but have we prioritized His name? We show value for His name, by acting like Him, obeying Him, treating others the way He treats them. His name is His highest priority and we as the church (people of God) must prioritize His name over everything else, for His name is who He is and who we are called to be. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org