" WHY AM I HERE?"

    By A. W. Tozer

  Who worshipped and served the creature more than the
    Creator; . . . God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
                                                            -- Romans 1:25,28

        Since the first fallen man got still long enough to think,
    fallen men have been asking these questions:  "Whence
    came I?  What am I?  Why am I here?  and Where am I
    going?"

        The noblest minds of the race have struggled with these
    questions to no avail.  Did the answer lie somewhere
    hidden like a jewel, it would surely have been uncovered;
    for the most penetrating minds of the race have searched
    for it everywhere in the region of human experience.  Yet
    the answers remain as securely hidden as if they did not
    exist.

       Why is man lost philosophically?  Because he is lost
    morally and spiritually.  He cannot answer the questions
    life presents to his intellect because the light of God has
    gone out in his soul.  The fearful indictment the Holy
    Ghost brings against mankind is summed up count by
    count in the opening chapters of Romans and the conduct
    of every man from earliest recorded history is evidence
    enough to sustain the indictment.

        Apart from the Scriptures - we have no sure philosophy;
    apart from Jesus Christ - we have no true knowledge of
    God; apart from the inliving Spirit - we have no ability to
    live lives morally pleasing to God!
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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.