JOHN WOODEN, THE famous UCLA basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket…

He said he kept it there to remind himself that there was something more important in life than basketball.

THOUGHT: The cross (Philippians 2:8) ought to remind us that there is something more important in life than anything else.

It’s more important than politics.

It’s more important than business.

It’s more important than romance.

It’s more important than education.

It’s more important than your career.

It’s more important than your health.

It’s more important than your safety.

It’s more important than your very life!

“But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14).

–Mike Benson