Happy Thursday

Making the First Thing the First Thing

Devotions taken from the messages of Adrian Rogers.

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“Who can understand his errors? Cleanse Thou me from secret faults.” Psalm 19:12

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
I believe in church attendance, but if your relationship with the Lord and with others is suffering, then you need to stay at home and get on your face before God.

Sometimes a businessman will get very prosperous in his business—and at first it seems a good thing. He tells his wife, “Honey, you know how I couldn’t give you much when we got married? Well, now I can.” But soon the pursuit of a nice home and nice things consume him. A sadness descends upon his wife and children, and they lament, “Oh, Daddy….Oh, Husband…what we would give to just have you spend time with us.”

ACTION POINT:
What tragedy it would be if what you do for Jesus keeps you from Jesus. Stop the cycle today. If you know you’re a workaholic, stop it. If you know your walk is far from God, get it right.

Confession of a Work-A-Holic:
___One does not have to be a Business Person to stay immersed in their work, it is so easy as just an employee to spend hours after their shift has ended, finishing up a few things they missed, to doing a little extra work as a sort of Job Preservation... 

___It is so easy for an employee to give a little extra here and there until it is soon expected... Minutes soon became hours, and then the calls start coming at home, invading your only day off with things that need to to be done at work... Most times, It's not even your job, but the boss knows you will do it anyway... In Your Mind, To say NO, would be job suicide... 

___Over the years, the time you could have spent with family is lost... Children grow up and start their families... Their priorities change and now that you have the time to spend with them, they are not around... 

___48 of my 66 years has been spent working... And as I look back, most of what I provided was a roof over the heads of my family, clothes on their backs and food in their bellies... Something I could have done with any 40 hour a week job... 

___Where most people are looking forward to retiring, I do not...


Family time is NOW... 
Tomorrow is not a Guarantee...