At times in life, it often takes something tragic, something devastating for us to think. Life's traumatic experience enables us to have a painful but extremely valuable look at life's simple backstage truths. We must do our best to get our priorities straight before tragedy strikes. Tragedies have a way of making us take a closer look at our lives. We begin to take an inventory of how well we are living. Tragedies make us take our eyes off the mundane things of life and consider the things that really matter. It doesn't have to take tragedies for us to be jolted to the reality of what truly matters, a timely and time-to-time check will get us on the right track. Don't wait until what is to be valued most is lost before you begin to realize its importance.
Matthew 26:31-35; Luke 22:54-62; Psalm 119:67-68; 81:8-16; Daniel 4:25-35; James 4:13; Isaiah 48:18; 48:17-19; Acts 27:13-44.