What are you out
for? Believe me, you will get it
whatever it is, if you are determined to do so.
Are you out for the rewards of this world? They can be obtained with very little
effort. They satisfy for a while, but
when one begins to think seriously about them they are not even worth that
little effort. But still we go on trying
to get the best our of both worlds. Let
us realize once and for all that the things of the Spirit can only be
appreciated by the spirit. The reward
for a spiritual way of life is a spiritual reward. Why do we expect to get the rewards of this
world as well? Why do we so often
complain that the ungodly seem to succeed while we fail? We are not out for the same thing. We must learn to judge spiritual results by
spiritual standards. Whatever a man soweth that also shall he
reap. If we have sown to the spirit why
expect to get a worldly and bodily harvest?
The man who sows for worldly results gets them, and everyone can see
these and know them and appreciate them.
The Christian, on the other hand, has very little that the world can
appreciate. That is why the Way of Life is
a difficult way - it is a life of faith.
When you enter upon it, you give up everything that the world treasures
most, and it is inevitable that at times we shall experience a sense of loss.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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