"The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing."
What is most important is to keep what is most important, most important.
Matthew 22:36–40 (ESV)
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Micah 6:8 (ESV)
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
John Maxwell writes in one of his books that the biggest immediate impact we can make in our life is closing the gap between what we know and what we do. We each need to ask ourselves, what is the gap that I need to close to make me a better child of God. Once we determine that, we need to ask ourselves, why we haven't already closed it. What is holding us back and what do we need to change. If we ask these questions and then act on it we can work to close the gap and seek to honor our Father in Heaven better with our life.
Matthew 13:18–23 (ESV)
The Parable of the Sower Explained
18 “Hear then the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. 20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”