In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of prioritizing worship of God, love for people, and proper use of material possessions.
Warren W. Wiersbe's quote conveys a fundamental principle of life where the proper order of relationships must be maintained. It suggests that when individuals place themselves above God, they disrupt the natural hierarchy of love and utilization, leading to a distorted perspective where material possessions are idolized and human relationships are treated as commodities. This framework underlines the significance of maintaining spiritual and moral priorities in order to foster healthy and meaningful interactions with others.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of a strong spiritual life.
Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.
If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.
Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.
We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.
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