What Really Matters?

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26 December, 2023

26

DEC

WHAT REALLY MATTERS?


For what hath man of all his labour . . . wherein he hath laboured under the sun?— Ecciesiastes 2:22

It is all but impossible these days to get people to pay any attention to things that really matter.

The broad cynic in our modern civilization is likely to ask: "What really matters, after all?"

It is our personal relationship to God that really matters! That takes priority over everything else; for no man can afford to live or die under the frowning displeasure of God. Yet, name one modern device that can save him from it. Where can a man find security? Can philosophy help him? Or psychology? Or science? Or atoms, or wonder drugs, or vitamins?

Only Christ can help him, and His aid is as old as man's sin and man's need. A few other things matter to be sure. We must trust Christ completely. We must carry our cross daily. We must love God and our fellow men. We must fulfill our commission as ambassadors of Christ among men.

We must grow in grace and in the knowledge of God and come at last to our end like a ripe shock of corn at harvest time. These are the things that really matter!

THOUGHT

We must trust Christ completely. We must carry our cross daily. We must love God and our fellow men. We must fulfill our commission as ambassadors of Christ among men. We must grow in grace and in the knowledge of God and come at last to our end like a ripe shock of corn at harvest time.

PRAYER

Lord, teach me today and always, to keep my focus on what really matters.

https://cmalliance.org/devotionals/tozer/