What if the deepest question shaping your life is not what you are doing—but what you love first?

In Episode 008 of ABIDE, Alexi Castro enters a new movement of the series with ORDERED LOVE: What Is Actually First?

This episode goes beneath the calendar and behavior itself:

What is actually first in your heart?

CENTRAL IDEA:
Every life is ordered by love. Jesus calls us to love God wholly, love our neighbor rightly, and receive every created good beneath His lordship.

GOVERNING REFRAIN:
What you love first will order what you choose next.
First love orders the rest.

The episode opens with The Boardroom With One Chair, a modern parable about competing priorities trying to occupy the place of ultimate authority.

From there, Scripture exposes how our habits, relationships, ambitions, work, possessions, and attention reveal what we treasure, trust, and love.

IN THIS EPISODE:
• Jesus and the Great Commandment
• loving God with heart, soul, mind, and strength
• treasure, the heart, and two masters
• Mary and Martha and distraction by many good things
• Revelation 2, first love, and “do the things you did at first”
• love and obedience
• Peter’s restoration in John 21
• why good gifts become destructive when made ultimate

Alexi also reflects on what happens when good responsibilities compete for first place.

The question becomes:

What has moved from being a gift in my life to trying to become my god?

Then the episode imagines a life with a true center—where work, relationships, ambition, and created gifts remain good without replacing the Giver, but Christianity does not merely tell us to try harder to put God first.

Our problem is deeper than disordered priorities. Our loves have been disordered by sin.

We have looked to achievement, approval, money, control, pleasure, relationships, success, influence, and even ministry to give us what only God can give.

We do not merely need a better priority list.
We need new hearts.

Jesus Christ loved the Father perfectly, gave Himself for sinners, died, rose bodily from the dead, reigns, and calls us to repent, believe, follow Him, and abide in Him.

The Gospel does not merely say:
“Try harder to put God first.”

It says:
COME TO CHRIST.

Receive grace. Abide in Him. Learn to love because He first loved us.

SCRIPTURES:
Deuteronomy 6:4–5 | Matthew 6:19–24 | Matthew 22:37–40 | Luke 10:38–42 | John 14:15 | John 15 | John 21:15–19 | Revelation 2:1–5

ONE QUESTION:
What is functionally first in your life right now?

ONE RESPONSE:
Read Matthew 22:37–40 and Revelation 2:1–5 slowly.

Ask:

“What has been receiving the love, trust, attention, obedience, or identity that belongs first to God?”

Name one disordered love. Bring it honestly before Christ. Then take one concrete step that puts that good back into its proper place beneath His lordship.

What you love first will order what you choose next.
First love orders the rest.

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