Start your thinking with the first verse of the Bible

We too easily give our devotion to that which has not created us. But more subtly, we align God to our programs rather than aligning ourselves to God’s program. This is what happens when our thinking begins with self not with God….We fail to start with the first verse of the Bible: “In the beginning God.”…If your thinking does not rest on God but on yourself, if you forget “In the beginning God," if you have too small a view of God or too high a view of self, then you are placing too great a burden on yourself, a burden you were not made to carry.

-Bernard Bell