MAN'S WASTED POTENTIAL

By A. W. Tozer

Then I will turn to those on my left and say, 'Away with you,
you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil
and his demons.       --- Matthew 25:41

    God has made it plain that hell is a real place --- a final
abode for people who do not want to love God and serve
Him!

    The sadness and the tragedy of this fact is that these are
human beings, all dear to God because He created them
in His own image.  Of nothing else in the Creation is it
said that it was created in the likeness of God!

    Because fallen and perishing man is still nearer to God's
likeness than any other creature on earth, God offers him
conversion, regeneration and forgiveness.  It was surely
because of this great potential in the human personality
that the eternal Word could become flesh and dwell
among us.

    We are assured in many ways in the Scriptures that God
the Creator does not waste human personality, but it is
surely one of the stark tragedies of life that human
personality can waste itself!

    A man by his own sin may waste himself, which is to
waste and lose that which on earth is most like God.  The
man who dies out of Christ is said to be lost, and hardly a
word in our language expresses his condition with greater
accuracy!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.