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instrumental in saving; into the other, for yourself and for them, a life
that measures with the life of God. Weigh for time and for eternity.
While you are thus engaged, Christ speaks; “What shall it profit a man,
if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
God desires us to choose the heavenly in place of the earthly.
He opens before us the possibilities of a heavenly investment. He
would give encouragement to our loftiest aims, security to our choicest
treasure. He declares, “I will make a man more precious than fine
gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.” When the riches
that moth devours and rust corrupts shall be swept away, Christ’s
followers can rejoice in their heavenly treasure, the riches that are
imperishable.—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 374
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