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says: “Consider how you have fared. You have sown much, and
harvested little: you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but
you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
and you that earn wages, earn wages to put them into a bag with
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holes.”
Haggai 1:5, 6
, NRSV.
“Will anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say,
‘How are we robbing You?’ In your tithes and offerings!”
Malachi
3:8
.
The accounts of every business, the details of every transaction,
pass the scrutiny of unseen auditors, agents of Him who never com-
promises with injustice, never overlooks evil, never palliates wrong.
“There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of
iniquity may hide themselves.”
Job 34:22
.
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, and 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 finally consumes soul and
body.
“What will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their
life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?”
Mark 8:36,
37
, NRSV.
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 young be taught to take
eternity into their reckoning. Teach them to choose the principles and
seek the possessions that are enduring—to lay up for themselves that
“treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches
nor moth destroys.”
Luke 12:33
.
All who do this are making the best possible preparation for life
in this world. All who lay up treasure in heaven will find their life
on earth enriched and ennobled.
“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
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