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In Planning, Consider the Unending Future, June 28
For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things,
having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
1
Timothy 4:8
, NKJV.
The accounts of every business, the details of every transaction, pass the scrutiny
of unseen auditors, agents of Him who never compromises with injustice, never
overlooks evil, never palliates wrong....
Against all evildoers God’s law utters condemnation. They may disregard that
voice, they may seek to drown its warning, but in vain. It follows them. It makes
itself heard. It destroys their peace. If unheeded, it pursues them to the grave. It
bears witness against them at the judgment. A quenchless fire, it consumes at last
soul and body.
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (
Mark 8:36, 37
).
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 and makes no provision for the unending future. Let the youth 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”
(
Luke 12:33
)....
All who do this are making the best possible preparation for life in this world.
No man or woman can lay up treasure in heaven without finding 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, 144, 145
.
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