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Key Bible Verse: Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven(Colossians 3:1). Bonus Reading:Colossians 3:2–1

God began to work on Jan. This missions thing wasn't just a passing fancy for her husband. During Dave's second trip overseas, Jan did some soul searching with her Bible. She thought of herself as a starving girl with ragged clothes. God said to her, "Jan, this is how you are spiritually. You're fat materially but starving spiritually." God gently showed her that she was running after all kinds of "things" instead of Him. Later, she went to Bombay, where Christ broke her heart.

How did things change in their lives? Money that would have bought a satellite dish paid for plane tickets so that others could go overseas. Dave liked late model high-powered cars, but now he drives only secondhand cars so that the extra money can go to missions. What was to have been a luxurious family room became a suite where strangers stay for free. Foreign exchange students have used it. The Davies are opening it to a Brazilian student Dave met on his visit. She'll attend college there in Topeka. Dave worked long and hard to obtain her visa. Within nine months they housed 11 foster children, abused and neglected, referred from an emergency care program.

—David Swartz in The Magnificent Obsession

My Response: By shifting my resources, what needs could I meet?

Thought to Apply: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein (physicist, 20th century)

Adapted from The Magnificent Obsession (NavPress, 1990) by permission.

Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, my priorities need aligning with Yours. Show me what needs adjusting. Make me willing to do it.

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