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.