JOHN WANAMAKER was known in his day as “the king of commerce” for having known how to make his businesses prosper with large profits. In his last years, he liked to remember which had been the most important purchase in his life. He went back to his childhood.
“In the course of my life, I have made hundreds of transactions and bought properties for million of dollars. But I made the most important purchase at eleven years old, when I was a little boy in the country. In the Sunday school I bought a small Bible for two dollars and seventy-five cents. I paid for it by working. And when I look back I see that it was that upon which my life was built. It has been the purchase that has been of longer-lasting value than any I have made.”
Dear reader, the Lord Jesus said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Matt. 24:3535Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matthew 24:35). If you treasure in your heart the Word of God not only will it be for your good in this life, but it will profit you through all eternity when the things of this life have passed forever.
ML-09/23/1973