"'If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.’ Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? Well, surely no difference that matters. We shall have missed the end for which we are formed and rejected the only thing that satisfies. Does it matter to a man dying in a desert by which choice of route he missed the only well?" — C.S. Lewis, A Slip of the Tongue from The Weight of Glory and Other Essays
Any second thing sought as a first thing will end in the loss of everything. It does not matter what the secondary thing is per se, but only that it was sought primarily.
Matthew 6:33
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Nothing can be sought first and kept other than Christ and everything sought second to Him will be kept by those who kept it in line. Everything is added to the one who has nothing but Jesus.
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