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.