Read: Matthew 16:24-28

                The foolishness of fools is

                folly. -Proverbs 14:24
      Intelligent people can sometimes be unbelievably

    foolish.  Consider the 19th-century explorers of the

    Franklin Expedition who tried to reach the North Pole.

    Annie Dillard, in her book Teaching A Stone To Talk,

    describes the provisions they took for that hazardous

    journey:
      “Each sailing vessel carried an auxiliary steam engine

    and a 12-day supply of coal for the entire projected 2-

    or 3-year voyage.  Instead of additional coal…each

    ship made room for a 1,200-volume library, a hand-organ

    playing 50 tunes, china place settings for officers and

    men, cutglass wine goblets, and sterling silver

    flatware.  The expedition carried no special clothing

    for the Arctic, only the uniforms of Her Majesty’s

    Navy.” Imagine heading into frigid wastelands with

    supplies like that! What utter folly!
      Some people heading into eternity may be even more

    shortsighted.  Multitudes fail to think of their

    destination with its dangers of everlasting destruction.

    Ignoring their desperate need for forgiveness of their

    sin through faith in Jesus Christ, they pay no attention

    to His solemn question, “What profit is it to a man if

    he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mt.

    16:26).
      Are you shortsighted or prepared for eternity?

    Vernon C. Grounds
         If I gained the world but lost the Savior,

            Were my life worth living for a day?

       Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort

      In the things that soon must pass away? -Olander
            THE ONE WHO LIVES FOR THIS LIFE ONLY

              WILL HAVE ETERNITY TO REGRET IT.
    OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1998 by Radio Bible Class,

    Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.

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