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~ God First ~
I Love You More Each Day
2000 by Bruce DeBoer
God 1st, Others 2nd, Self last ...
Most Christians believe that is how it should be, whether they practice it or not.
Few have problems recognizing when "Me, Me, Me" gets in the way, whether they care to admit it or not.
But, putting others 2nd can get very confusing in relationship to God being 1st.
It is God who teaches us how to love others and, in so doing, we are loving Him. However, when we have a passion for caring for the needs of others, you can bet lying spirits are looking for ways to trip us up and burn us out.
The devil will use that passion against us (where we are being called upon, up to 24 hrs. per day, to help others in countless ways) until we find we no longer have time for God. Then, others get 1st place and God gets nothing.
In addition, we run out of time for tending our own spiritual needs and soon become drained, finding we no longer have anything left to give.
It would go a long way toward keeping evil within tight reigns were we to:
1.) spend quality time with God, even if we have to schedule an appointment.
2.) seek God's will, even above the feelings of others.
3.) learn to discern and detach a little from those who 'manipulate our time with no real intention of following God' while keeping an open door for the time when they don't just want attention, but a real help.
4.) let go of responsibilities God did not call us to; works that please man but not Him.
There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or
brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time,
or in the world to come life everlasting.
Luke 18:29-30
Only when 'God is first' does
everything else fall into place.
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