Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8)

Prop: Envelope…junk mail marked IMPORTANT

You know those envelopes you get in the mail sometimes marked IMPORTANT! Here is one of them. You scramble to open it, thinking it’s a check or some important document that you need . . . only to find that it’s an ad to buy life insurance or something you don’t need! Yikes! Fooled again.

Living in our culture is a lot like that. Signs are everywhere telling you that THIS message is IMPORTANT! And you need to pay attention. Everywhere, we are distracted by IMPORTANT messages. It’s so easy to get distracted from what is TRULY IMPORTANT. And what is that, you ask?

JESUS.

As followers of Jesus, we need to know that if something in life doesn’t point to Jesus, it’s NOT that impo…