How often do we struggle with our priorities in life? How do we respond to these struggles, and allocate our time appropriately? Here’s a quote on the subject from today’s reading in “Voices From The Past”, Puritan Devotional Readings, page 128.
“In worldly concerns, men discern their opportunities, and are careful to improve them before they are past. …
“How apt are men to be alarmed at the appearance of danger to their worldly estate! …
“How unaware men are of the need to improve their time for their spiritual interest, and their welfare in another world! How hardly convinced are men of the uncertainty of life and its enjoyments! We have abundant instructions to lead and conduct us in the paths of righteousness. They are abundantly set before us in the Word of God. Scripture is adapted to the faculties of mankind, to greatly enlighten the mind. We have far greater means to assist us to be wise in eternal things than in temporal. If men do not have respect for eternal things as real, it cannot be for lack of sufficient evidence of their truth. It is an uncaring attitude of the importance of truth which is manifested by the clearest evidence.”
JONATHAN EDWARDS, Works, I:158-159
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Matthew 16:26
