"God Thinks He's God" a life application devotional by Kay Cameron from Luke 18:18-25

In a lot of sermons, Pastor Tim uses this phrase to instill in us the understanding that God wants to be number one in our lives. God should always come first in our lives. Then our family should come next. Church and job come third and fourth. My husband's uncle, a bi-vocational pastor, used to struggle over whether he should be at the Wednesday night church service or at his son's baseball game. It took him a while to realize that family comes before church. Sometimes we confuse church with God. People can put church number one in their lives and yet not know God. And sometimes we have a tendency to put our family or money or our job in first place. God has already told us that we should have no other gods before Him. How many of us know someone who worships money, or power, or a spouse? It happens. And God will call us on it. The things that we find most precious are the things that He will require from us. Just like the rich young man in the Bible whom Jesus told to sell all he had and give it to the poor, sometimes what we love most is required of us. If our time is precious to us, God will require our time. If our money means the world to us, God will require our money. After all, God thinks He's God. And He is. Be careful not to put anything else before Him. We don't really possess anything we have, it's just on loan from God.

Luke 18:18-25

18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do no kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing; sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
15 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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