Setting priorities is an important counselor concern. Many counselees get themselves into trouble because they don’t do so. They intend to do something or other but, then, allow other subsequent interests to get in the way. As a result, their lives become chaotic, and they find themselves tangled up in minor matters. These take up valuable time and make it impossible to attend to priorities.
This problem can reach into every area of a person’s life. It not only has to do with time, but also with the expenditure of money. Giving to the church ought to be high a priority. The counselee may mean to do so, but if he doesn’t lay the church money from each paycheck aside first, before writing any other checks, he’s likely to run out of money before he gets around to doing so.
Interests are another area to think about. What one ought to take an interest in—something that honors the Lord, and edifies him, for example—he neglects because some lesser matter catches his attention before he can mark off time for the former.
The key to helping counselees with the matter of setting priorities lies in getting them to deliberately portion out
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