First Things First

“Seek ye first ...” (Mt. 6:33).

The reason so many Christian lives are topsy-turvy is because when they list what’s most important to them they put “two” before “one.”  The Divine order, as well as that of the mathematician, is that you always start counting from one. The second thing is alright as long as it follows the first. “Things” are additives for putting God first.

Holiness comes before happiness; the approval of God is to be preferred above  the approval of men; the welfare of people comes before my personal wealth; “Thy will” is to be before “my will”; the voice from Heaven should be sweeter to me than cheers from the crowd. God is always first in line—everything and everyone else must fall in behind Him and wait their turn.