Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Philippians 3:1-14
In a commonly used object lesson, an individual is asked to fill a large bowl using a cup of sand, then pebbles, and then finally a large rock. The individual is perplexed because the items will not all fit. When the order of events are reversed, however, starting with the rock, adding the pebbles, and then the sand, the items will fit in easily. This is a fitting illustration of the importance of putting first things first. Unfortunately, most people get wrong what the large rock is. Put Christ first in your life and let everything else fit around Him. On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
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