Key Verse: Verse 1 - “Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.”
Key Words: Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD
Barbara Hutton whose death on May 21, 1979, made the obituary column of Time magazine, died at the age of 66, a celebrity. She was the granddaughter of F. W. Woolworth, and at the age of twelve she inherited $25 million, a fabulous fortune in those days. But her money did not make her happy, nor did her marriages. She married seven husbands, among them a Laotian prince, a Lithuanian prince, a Russian prince, a Prussian count, and a Hollywood film star. She was plagued with sickness. Her illnesses ranged from kidney disease to cataracts. She died of a heart attack. The last years of her life found her a recluse, often bedridden, weighing only eighty pounds. The newspapers used to call her a “poor little rich girl.” Happiness is not to be found in marriage or in money.
Something else is needed: True happiness cannot be divorced from God. Peace, harmony, and order have their center in God.
In the world of nature, God, the Author of creation, shows us the importance of order and a proper center. If we take our telescopes and explore the world of the infinitely large, everywhere we find order. We find that we belong to a solar system which revolves around the sun. The solar system is populated by a single star, the sun, and by nine planets, thirty-two moons, some 100,000 asteroids, and about 100 billion comets. The word planet comes from the Greek word planetai, which means "wanderers," so called by the Greeks because the planets seemed to drift among the fixed stars. The Greeks were wrong. The planets do not wander; they obey fixed laws. On the outer fringes of the solar system is the planet we once knew as Pluto, which orbits around the sun on an eccentric path which takes it to within 2.7 billion miles of the sun to as far away as 4.6 billion miles. Roaming the icy fringes of the system are the comets. The sun, however, has the power to exert its gravitational sway far, far beyond the comets, to a distance of some thousand times beyond the distance of the planet we once knew as Pluto. The solar system exists solely because it has a center. Without that center it would disappear. But the sun itself is not the center of everything. It, too, has a center.
When all is said and done, the fact remains that God is the ultimate center of everything. He must also be the center of our lives. There can be no happiness for those who forget this.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Let Christ be the center of your life.
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