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    Refocusing On Life's Priorities
    Refocusing On Life's Priorities
    Refocusing On Life's Priorities
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    Refocusing On Life's Priorities

    By Ron Christian

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    Men are breaking their health and selling out their honor to make more money. 'Success' in a secular culture is determined by a materialistic standard. The quantity of one's bank account is more important than the quality of one's life.

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    PublisherRon Christian
    Release dateOct 28, 2010
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      Refocusing On Life's Priorities - Ron Christian

      Book Seven - Priorities

      By

      Ron Christian, Compiler

      Growing A Godly Life - Devotional Series

      Table Of Contents:

      Introduction

      Chapter One - Esteem People Above ‘Things’

      Chapter Two - Reject Corruption Of ‘Worldliness’

      Chapter Three - Embrace ‘Simplicity’ Of Spirituality

      Chapter Four - Appropriate Power Of ‘Kingdom Resources’

      Introduction

      Men are breaking their health and selling out their honor to make more money. 'Success' in a secular culture is determined by a materialistic standard. The quantity of one's bank account is more important than the quality of one's life. Notes Evangelist Billy Graham: A leading magazine carries an advertisement with this revealing paragraph: 'Is automation, the use of electronics to run machines, going to fill your home with pleasant surprises? Will magic eyes light each room? Will you own a portable piano, cordless electric clocks and a telephone you can answer without lifting the receiver? Discover how this exciting new development can make your life happier'. Asks Billy Graham, Has happiness been reduced to portable pianos and the blinking of magic eyes? (World Aflame; page 46)

      Notes Mavis: Modern man has a clear vision for secular goals, but dull vision for spiritual goals. It seems that some evil spirit, to use Kierkegaard's figure of speech, has put a pair of glasses on the nose of this generation. One of the lenses is a powerful magnifying glass; the other is an equally strong reducing glass. Our generation looks at the secular things through the strong lens and at the spiritual things through the reducing one. (Psychology of Christian Experience; pg. 103)

      In 1923, a very important meeting was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Attending this meeting were nine of the world's most successful financiers. It is noteworthy to recognize what happened to these persons 25 years later. Charles Schwab, the president of the largest independent steel company, died bankrupt and lived on borrowed money; Samuel Insull, the president of the largest utility company, died a fugitive from justice and penniless; Howard Hopson, the president of the largest gas company, went insane; Arthur Sutton, the great wheat speculator, died abroad insolvent; Richard Whitney, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, was finally released from prison; Albert Fall, a member of the President's Cabinet, was pardoned from prison so he could die at home; Jesse Livermore, the greatest 'bear' on Wall Street, died a suicide; Ivar Krugar, head of the world's greatest monopoly, died a suicide! (A Challenge to Men From Proverbs; Foster; pg. 11)

      The great British preacher, William Sangster, once said: Material things are regarded as the chief good in life only by those who do not have them.

      'Everything has its price. Money can buy anything. Unhappiness is caused because of economic deprivation.' This is the sentiment of many Americans. Too many think that more money would some way solve their problems. The wealth of America is the cause of envy in other lands, but it is revealing to know that the American best-sellers are books on how to be happy.

      It was Hannah More who noted that the soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile anxious for its native home. Man's soul, unattended and ignored, becomes shriveled and starved. The materialist is one who values temporal things more than spiritual things. Materialism may fatten the body, but it starves the soul. It may gratify the senses, but it will rotten the fiber of moral character. It may outwardly give fame and fortune but inwardly it imprisons the poverty-stricken spirit. The result of conforming to cultural standards is mediocrity. To be squeezed into the word's mold is to be formed into a stunted, dull and manufactured person.

      The greedy materialist, who has grown fat on the accumulation of material goods, remains dissatisfied because of the leanness of his soul. To his bitter disappointment he learns that life does not consist in the abundance of things that a man possesses. His riches have only given ulcers to his stomach and taken peace from his mind. His false friends stand by to mock him, and his sad delusion turns to suicidal despair. The crackle of the dollar and the glitter of the coin have lost their appear, for he finally learns that everything does not have its price and there are qualities that have no monetary value. Sliding down the slope of life on his bed of perpetual pain, caused from his indulgent living, the disillusioned secularist realizes that he has been the subject of a cruel tyrant. The sweet wine of frivolous living has left a bitter taste in his mouth. The swinging music of his youth remains as a strange echo in his mind to mock him as a fool. Too many learned too late that the lover of money shall not be satisfied with money nor the lover of wealth with his gain; this, too, is futility. (Ecclesiastes 5:10)

      Rev. Harold Brockhoff spoke one time on the nationwide 'Lutheran Hour' on the subject of 'Authentic Life'. He noted, A minister in our neighborhood was out making calls one afternoon and he rang the bell of a certain house and a woman came to the door, her apron on, flour on her hands - she was holding a can of cherries. She very shortly told him that she didn't know anything about what he had come to talk about and that she wasn't interested in finding out either. Then after a few minutes of conversation, as she was about to close the door, the minister asked 'Do you mind if I ask you what you have in your hand?' And she answered 'A can of cherries'. He said, 'Do you mind if I ask you where you got them?' She said, 'Down at the corner, at the store'. And then he asked Do you mind if I ask what you're going to do with them?' Still polite even after this third question she answered 'Why, I am going to put them into a pie.' And then the minister said 'If you don't mind the observation, those cherries are in a better shape than you are. We know what they are - they are cherries. And we know where they came from - they came from the store. And we know where they are going. And from your conversation you have no idea of who you are, you don't understand your roots and where you came from and how you got here, and why you're here and you don't know where you are going, or why you're going there.' After a short moment of stunned silence, the good woman said 'Won't you please come in'."

      Are you, like the woman in this story, living only for this life? Are you so preoccupied with the trivial things of time that you have forgotten the weightier matters of eternity? 'Only one life to live, t'will soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last.'

      The road of materialism is a dead-end road,

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