Here’s an interesting story about priorities in life. I got this from Pastor David Dykes of Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler Texas. He was one of the speakers at the John Maxwell’s Million Leaders Mandate 3.

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A time management guru was speaking to a group of type “A” personalities. He placed a wide-mouth gallon jar on the table in front of him. Next to the jar was a collection of fist-sized rocks. He carefully filled the jar with the big rocks, until he could fit no more.

He asked the group, “Is the jar full?”

Everyone responded, “Yes.”

He then pulled a large bowl of gravel from under the table and proceeded to pour the gravel into the jar. The gravel fit into the spaces between the rocks. He again queried, “Is the jar full?”

“Probably not,” was the group’s reply.

He reached for another bowl, this one filled with sand. He dumped the sand into the jar. The sand filled the spaces not taken by the rocks and the gravel. Once more, he asked, “Is the jar full?”

“No,” everyone agreed.

Finally, he reached for a pitcher of water and poured water into the jar until it was filled to the top. The time management guru looked at the group and asked, “What is the point of my illustration?”

One man replied, “That no matter how full your schedule is, you can always fit one more thing into it.”

“No!” the guru responded.

The point of this illustration is, “If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all!”

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It simply means, if we don’t prioritize important things first, we’d never get to do them at all. This is true for all Christians, doing the work of God. There are priorities in life. If we get busy with the least important ones and miss to put high priority things first, we’d never have enough time to do the most important things anymore. I hope this blesses you as it had blessed me.