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.