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If a Billionaire Was Coming to Your Town... By Jeff Weatherhead What do we really want in life? Are we looking for it in the right places?
eople work hard and spend large sums of money investing in businesses because of the possibility of one day being able to earn enough money to provide a good standard of living for themselves and their families. Some spend their hard earned money on lottery tickets in the mere hope that they might win the jackpot, so they can relax and enjoy all the wonderful things that money can buy. But why do people want all that money anyway? Surely it's not so that they can have a lot of pieces of paper with the faces of deceased notables on them! No. We want the things that we think wealth will give us. In short, what we really want is to be happy! And to be happy for the rest of our lives. So many of us spend so much time and energy worrying and fussing about the affairs of this physical life. We naturally get caught up in the here and now and lose sight of the big picture. Compared with eternity, our entire life-span on this earth is less than a breath in a hurricane. Recently I asked my mother, "What will the things we worry about now really matter a hundred years from now, anyway?" She smiled and said, "What will they matter five years from now?" (She's 83.) Although we all know we will die, yet many people today are quick to stop their ears from any discussion about the possibility of immortality. They consider it foolish and fanatical to read the Bible, to talk about religion and worse yet, to pray. Maybe I'm crazy, but somehow it seems reasonable to me to consider the subject. Since we know we will die, and it's really not likely that medical science will find a way to give us all immortality within the next hundred years, isn't it worth a reasonable amount of time to thoroughly check and prove to our own satisfaction, one way or the other, whether God exists? And to prove if the Bible is a divinely inspired manual about the way to live that would lead to immortal life?
But today we've got our priorities twisted. If there is a possibility that you could lose out on an incredible opportunity such as being given the ability to live happily forever, wouldn't it make sense to check it out, thoroughly? But here we are--we go to work, do a lot of this and that, maybe watch some television and generally waste our lives away. Then one gloomy day we find that our lives have gone by. And just what have we done? We've wasted our lives away, when we could have been finding out about and ensuring the way to immortality. Well, I have good news for you. A multibillionaire IS coming! Jesus Christ said He would come again, and left details about the most incredible free gifts He is offering us. You can read more about this in a helpful booklet called, . It's free. And the biblical truths presented are priceless! Copyright 2000 by United Church of God, an International Association All rights reserved. |
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