What Shall a Man Profit
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36
This is a question that demands consideration by every parent, every teacher, every student by every human being, young or old. No scheme of business or plan of life can be sound or complete that embraces only the brief years of this present life that makes no provision for the unending future. Let the young be taught to take eternity into their reckoning. Let them be taught to choose the principles and seek the possessions that are enduring--to lay up for themselves that "treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth," to make to themselves friends "by means of the mammon of unrighteousness," that when it shall fail, these may receive them "into the eternal tabernacles" (Luke 12:33; 16:9, R.V.).
All who do this are making the best possible preparation for life in this world. No man can lay up treasure in heaven without finding his life on earth thereby enriched and ennobled.
"Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8). (Education, 145)
Reflection: We should live now as though we're living forever. Why center our lives around the things that will perish?
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36
This is a question that demands consideration by every parent, every teacher, every student by every human being, young or old. No scheme of business or plan of life can be sound or complete that embraces only the brief years of this present life that makes no provision for the unending future. Let the young be taught to take eternity into their reckoning. Let them be taught to choose the principles and seek the possessions that are enduring--to lay up for themselves that "treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth," to make to themselves friends "by means of the mammon of unrighteousness," that when it shall fail, these may receive them "into the eternal tabernacles" (Luke 12:33; 16:9, R.V.).
All who do this are making the best possible preparation for life in this world. No man can lay up treasure in heaven without finding his life on earth thereby enriched and ennobled.
"Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8). (Education, 145)
Reflection: We should live now as though we're living forever. Why center our lives around the things that will perish?
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