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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

SEPTEMBER The First THE VIRTUE OF PROPORTION

MATTHEW vi.25-34.

I must put first things first. The radical fault in much of my living is want of proportion. I think more of pretty window curtains than of fresh air, more of |nice| wallpaper than of the moving pageant of the skies. I magnify the immediate desire and minimize the ultimate goal. And so |things do not come right!| How can they when the apportionment is so perverse, when everything is topsy-turvy? If I want things to be firm and durable I must revere the Divine order, and must put first things first. |Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.|

And, therefore, I must seek holiness before success. I am to esteem holiness with apparent failure as infinitely better than success with stain and shame.

I must seek character before reputation. The applause of the world must be as nothing compared with the approbation of God. The favouring |voice from heaven| must be sweeter to my ears than the noisy cheers of the crowd.

And I must seek righteousness before quietness. The way of disturbance is sometimes the way to peace. I must not be so concerned for a quiet life as for a life that is |right with God.|

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