To experience true fulfillment, you have to prioritize what’s VITAL over what’s URGENT.

• Urgent things are about completing TASKS.

• We all have urgent things to do every day that are important to get done.

• Vital things are about sustaining and enhancing LIFE.

• Vital things are about health - body, soul, spirit.

• It’s urgent for me to finish the task of teaching this concept right now.

• But it’s vital that I use the restroom regularly.

• If I elevate what’s urgent over what’s vital then ultimately I can’t complete the task I need to complete - I’d be sprinting to the bathroom!

• This verse in Psalms shows us the importance of elevating what vital over what’s urgent.

• Vs 1-2 - Life cannot be sustained with water.

• This is true both physically and spiritually.

• The Holy Spirit is water, and without Him our souls die.

• The Psalmist says, “I thirst for You, God!”

• The most important thing for the Psalmist is drinking from the River of Living Water!

• He prioritized what was vital over what was urgent, so now all the urgent things he had to do for the day would fall in line.

• Then, at the end of the day, he wouldn’t just have a list of tasks he completed, but he’d experience the fulfillment of completing them.

• When you prioritize urgent over vital you get stuff done but you lack the fulfillment in doing them.

• ** You may be PRODUCTIVE, but not truly PROFITABLE (Mark 8:36).

• Relationships are rarely urgent, but they are extremely vital - especially your relationship with God.

• So what if you’re not thirsty for your relationship with God and others?

• Take a drink! Drink anyway, and the more you do it the more you’ll thirst!

• To experience true fulfillment, you have to prioritize what’s VITAL over what’s URGENT.