WHAT REALLY MATTERS?

              By A. W. Tozer
 

              For what hath man of all his labour . . . wherein he hath
              laboured under the sun?   Ecclesiastes 2:22

                  It is all but impossible these days to get people to pay
              any attention to things that really matter.  The broad cynic
              in our modern civilization is likely to ask:  "What really
              matters, after all?"

                  It  is  our  personal  relationship  to  God  that really
              matters!

                 That takes priority over everything else; for no man can
              afford to live or die under the frowning displeasure of
              God.  Yet, name one modern device that can save him
              from it.  Where can a man find security?  Can philosophy
              help him?  or psychology?  or science?  or atoms or wonder
              drugs or vitamins?

                  Only Christ can help him, and His aid is as old as man's
              sin and man's need.

                  A  few other things matter to be sure.  We must trust
              Christ completely.  We must carry our cross daily.  We
              must love God and our fellow men.  We must fulfill our
              commission as ambassadors of Christ among men.  We
              must grow in grace and in the knowledge of God and
              come at last to our end like a ripe shock of corn at harvest
              time.

                These are the things that really matter!

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              Yours in Christ,
              Paul N. F.