{"id":8827,"date":"2021-07-02T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:40","slug":"priority-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8827","title":{"rendered":"PRIORITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s something I heard on a podcast recently about the word &#8220;priority&#8221;: originally it was never used as a plural. There was no such thing as &#8220;priorities&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no idea if this is true, but it makes sense logically. &#8220;Priority&#8221; means &#8220;coming before&#8221; or &#8220;first in rank or importance&#8221;. Ultimately, only ONE priority is possible. Only one thing can be THE most important. All other considerations can be ranked in descending order of importance, but they cannot technically be called &#8220;priorities&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would be a good thing to keep in mind when considering this commandment from Jesus in Matthew 6:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"text Matt-6-31\" id=\"en-NIV-23314\" style=\"background-color: white\"><span class=\"woj\">&#8220;So do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Matt-6-32\" id=\"en-NIV-23315\" style=\"background-color: white\"><span class=\"woj\"><span class=\"versenum\" style=\"display: inline;font-weight: 700;line-height: normal;position: relative;top: auto;vertical-align: text-top\">\u00a0<\/span>For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Matt-6-33\" id=\"en-NIV-23316\" style=\"background-color: white\"><span class=\"woj\"><span class=\"versenum\" style=\"display: inline;font-weight: 700;line-height: normal;position: relative;top: auto;vertical-align: text-top\">\u00a0<\/span>But seek first his kingdom\u00a0and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">There cannot be two or more things that we &#8220;seek first&#8221; &#8211; it is logically (as well as practically) impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I heard on a podcast recently about the word &#8220;priority&#8221;: originally it was never used as a plural. There was no such thing as &#8220;priorities&#8221;.\u00a0 I have no idea if this is true, but it makes sense logically. &#8220;Priority&#8221; means &#8220;coming before&#8221; or &#8220;first in rank or importance&#8221;. Ultimately, only ONE priority is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}