MAN'S WASTED POTENTIAL

 

By A. W. Tozer

 

Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared

for the devil and his angels.  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.