CHOICES;
COMMITMENT; AMBITION

Who wins when it’s a choice between God and money, between God and ambition? A lot of young people turn to the Lord when they’re in their teens and are doing fine—and then they become ambitious. They have some talent and develop it, and the world finds out and sends for them. Then they have to make a choice between following that ambition, which will take them to the world and away from the church, or following the Lord. And I think a clean 97 percent of them will follow their ambition.

Who wins when it’s a question of fleshly enjoyment or doing the will of God? Out in the world God would never get a vote, but in the Church it would seem to me that God ought to get all the votes there are. And yet when it’s a choice between fleshly enjoyments and God, the Church usually votes on the side of fleshly enjoyments—provided we can somehow strike a compromise and have God too.

Who wins when it’s a choice between marriage and God’s will? I have known or read of a few instances where men and women separate because one or the other is not a Christian.… Now that happens once in a blue moon. But it doesn’t happen very often. Usually, a young man or woman follows the Lord blissfully and happily along. They’re the first one to young people’s service and the last one out. They’re the first one to take part and witness and to testify and all, until they meet someone. And then God gets shunted aside while they decide whether they are to marry and who to marry. And if it’s a choice between God and marriage, they marry.

Matthew 6:24, 33; Romans 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:14–15

Success and the Christian, 137, 138.