The Most Important Thing.

From: Messages of God's Love: 1917

I WAS speaking with a retired man of business—one who had been eminently successful and who had amassed a considerable fortune. After talking for some time on his success, he concluded with these remarkable words, “But I found, after all, I had forgotten the most important thing.” He had forgotten God! He had prospered in business, made a fortune, but had nothing to satisfy his soul.

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Mark. 8:36, 37.

Again, I listened to a few words from the lips of another. He was telling me what was to him the most wonderful thing he had learned in his lifetime. It was this— “Jesus so loved me as to die for me. O, what a precious fact! —Jesus, Son of God, loved me and gave Himself for me! What love! and He loves me now!”

Reader, do you know this fact for yourself?

“God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:8⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8).

“I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH.” Romans 1:16¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16).

ML 12/30/1917

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