by Charles R. Swindoll
The LORD possessed me
at the beginning of
His way,
before His works of
old.
---Proverbs 8:22
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
perspective, you can handle a demotion just as well as 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
lengthy and sometimes painful process.
There is a line found in the Jewish Talmud that puts it
well: "Man is born with his hands clenched; he dies with them wide open.
Entering life, he desires 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.
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