{"id":401,"date":"2014-09-07T01:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T01:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=401"},"modified":"2014-09-07T01:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T01:33:44","slug":"the-first-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/september\/the-first-in-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The first in line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being first is in the heart of every person, although after many times being last one can get used to being last and not desire to being first. Being first is a God thing; we are called to be first. Jesus said it and put it in our hearts as kingdom people we are called from the last to be first (Mt.20:16). The race to be first, to many is achieved through personal strive and effort, in God it is a reward. Our quest to become first has caused detrimental effects to our relationships with each other. It has separated families and broken up best of friends becoming first..<\/p>\n<p>John 5:4-6<br \/>\n4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?<\/p>\n<p>At the pool at Bethesda there were many terminally ill people waiting to be first at the moving of the waters when the angel moved it. A lamed man for 38 years was waiting for a very long time to be first in the waters and Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed. I guess after a while of waiting we can forget the goal of being first. Forgetting to be first is a process. The lost of position can happen when one becomes negligent with their salvation (Mt. 20:16). There is a special blessing that comes from the first which we can all acquire; for when we are in Christ we become first. He pours the rain the matters in our lives in the first month (Joel 2:23). The first thing God create in creation was light and it was aside from man the most glorious (gen 1:5). Elijah and able knew that a good thing happens when the first is brought to the Kingdom God. Able was the first of man to experience grace (favor) from God (gen 4:4). The widow during Elijah&#8217;s time experienced an unprecedented amount of prosperity because she gave the first to Elijah (1Kg. 17:13).<\/p>\n<p>With the first it is a way to honor the Lord (Pr. 3:9). It is a way to please God, when we give him the first fruit in our lives. God is good and every person agrees that he is good. We esteem that to be the first or to receive the first is the best, well, he calls himself the first (Is.\u00a041:4).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDeJcQBWsL4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being first is in the heart of every person, although after many times being last one can get used to being last and not desire to being first. Being first is a God thing; we are called to be first. 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