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Devotion

Are You Prepared?





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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