Giving God as the only 'first place'

If some corporate position is the God of your life, then something terrible occurs within when it is no longer a future possibility.If your career, however, is simply a part of God's plan and you keep it in proper persepective, you can handle a promotion. It all depends on who's first and what's first.

Breaking the magnet that draws things ahead of God is a lenghty and sometimes painful process. There is a line found in Jewish Talmund that puts it well: "Man is born with his hands clenched; He dies with them wide open. Entering life, He desire to grasp everything; leaving the world, all He possessed has slipped away."...

Just remember: Whatever is in first place, if it isn't Christ alone, it is in the wrong place.