Roy & I talked last night about Jesus’ exciting statement, “Seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, and all the rest will be added unto you.”
Like the rest of Jesus’ sayings, one can only verify the truth of this by empirical evidence, by trying it.
C.S. Lewis in a more contemporary idiom says, that “When first things are put first, second things don’t diminish, they increase.”
I have found (more by failure than success) alas, that when first things are put first, a kind of peace and order pervades one’s life.
Putting second things first is a recipe for disorder.
Putting second things first is a recipe for disorder.