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.
                              

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