What Matters Most

Most of our time we spend on smaller things: getting the shopping done, mowing the lawn, watching a baseball game.

Much of what we use our abilities for are not the most important matters we face: learning to play an instrument in the high school band that we might not find much use for after we graduate, learning to play basketball although we will not likely be skilled enough to make a living at it later.

A good bit of what we spend our money on will not be a permanent solution to anything: the different vehicle we buy we will need to replace, the clothes we are wearing will wear out or get torn or we’ll outgrow them.

Whether it’s time or skills or finances, they usually do not figure permanently into who we are and what we are about, even though they are enjoyable and necessary parts of our years.

It is a different story right now, right here, with us. We are holding in our hands, tasting with our mouths, looking at with our eyes, ingesting into ourselves two symbols that associate us with the ultimate issue: our relationship to God and all the things that being related to him affects. Jesus gave the greatest thing for the greatest number of people, for eternity the greatest time: relationship to God the greatest One.

Here and now, we touch that ultimate eternal matter: relationships disrupted by sin and restored through forgiveness based on commitment to him who gave even his body and blood to become what we are all called to be.