PRIORITIES;
EARTHLY THINGS; WORSHIP: SUPREMACY OF

Before the Lord God made man upon the earth He first prepared for him a world of useful and pleasant things for his sustenance and delight. In the Genesis account of the creation these are called simply “things.” They were made for man’s use, but they were meant always to be external to the man and subservient to him. In the deep heart of the man was a shrine where none but God was worthy to come.…

Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and things were allowed to enter. Within the human heart things have taken over. Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk, stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne.

Genesis 1:24–26; Matthew 16:24–26; Luke 16:10–13; 1 Timothy 6:17–19

The Pursuit of God, 21, 22.