Just one thing!









The phrase, "Just One Thing" conjures up an amusing cinematic image in my mind. A grisly old cowboy in the movie "City Slickers," asks the haunting question, "Do you know what the secret of life is?"

A soul-searching middle-aged city-boy by the name of Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, stares quizzically as the cowboy sticks up a gloved index finger and exhales the word, "this," with a gravely voice. He concludes, Just One Thing."

Mitch cynically responds, "That's great but what's the one thing." The cowboy cocks his head, looks him in the eye and roughly quips, "That's what you've got to figure out." From the Internet Article Passion For God - “Just One Thing" by Allen Ratta.

What is the one thing? Have you figured it out yet?
Someone wisely said that the “Good can become the enemy of the best” meaning that it’s easy to get preoccupied doing good things and neglecting better things!

There are multiple demands on our time and no matter how much you try to pack into a day, you still have only 24 hours no more…no less in a day.

I believe when our time on this globe draws to a close we will look back with a sense of gratitude and life fulfillment if the decisions of life and decisions for the church were based …… on the one thing found in the Gospel of Mark:

One of the religion scholars came up. Hearing the lively exchanges of question and answer and seeing how sharp Jesus was in his answers, he put in his question: "Which is most important of all the commandments?"

Jesus said, "The first in importance is, "Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy. And here is the second: "Love others as well as you love yourself.' There is no other commandment that ranks with these." (Mark 12: 28-31).

Loving God, Loving others, the " One Thing" that matters most in life!

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