What is "First and Best?"

 The idea for "First and Best" came from a thought the Lord gave me in early 2023 as I was driving to the office one morning. What I heard Him say was this, "Todd, please tell the people I've sent to you that I deeply and desperately want to be in a relationship with them and that I want the "First and Best" of their time every day. Not their leftovers, but their "First and Best" every day. And Todd, if they do this, I will move in their lives and marriage and transform them!"

Why would He say this to me? I believe scripture is clear that the Lord created mankind to be in relationship with Him and He desperately desires to be in a deep and meaningful relationship with us, His creation. God is a personal Being, and it gives Him pleasure to have other beings He can have a genuine relationship with. See Revelation 4:11, Colossians 1:16, Genesis 1:27, John 15:14-15.

Any parent of grown, adult, kids knows this feeling! Jodi and I ache when we don't see our kids and their families for extended periods of time. If we feel this way about mortal, flesh and blood relationships, just imagine how much more God aches to be in relationship with us?

Give the Lord the "First and Best" of your time daily, and watch Him work miracles in your lives!