Two Worlds

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“O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!” (Deut. 32:2929O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! (Deuteronomy 32:29)).
Satan does not like people, especially the young who are on the threshold of life, to think about death. He offers to all a multitude of varying attractions to keep them from looking ahead. But our God desires that all should be wise with that true wisdom which does not simply take everything at its face value, but weighs it in the light of eternity.
Two worlds claim the attention of all, especially those who are starting the journey of life. The first is the world around us, of which Satan is morally the god and prince, with its alluring tales of ambition and progress, religious and otherwise, but which, in spite of all its fair appearance, is yet spoken of in Scripture as “this present evil world.” The second is the world of which Christ is the Head and Center, with its glorious and incorruptible future, but involving a pathway of present trial and suffering to reach it (Heb. 11:10,1310For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Hebrews 11:10)
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Hebrews 11:13)).
Gems From My Reading (adapted)