O Live for Eternity by Mary Winslow
What poor creatures we are, if left to ourselves! What a mercy
there is, one that loves us better than we love ourselves, and will
watch over us all our journey here, and who has engaged, by
all the varying dispensations of his providence, to prepare
us for that blessed home he has gone to prepare for us. And oh,
what a place will that be! Love Him supremely. Live for
eternity. Live for Jesus. have much to
do with Him. This world is not worth living
for. Its honors, its riches, its glories
are things ever passing away, but the love of Jesus is as eternal
as Himself. Oh, live for eternity! The glory of this world is fading,
and is soon gone, and gone forever. Again I say, live for a glorious
eternity. If you could have the glory,
the wealth, and the honors of this world laid at your feet,
how short would be the empty enjoyment of them. Then live
and act with reference to eternity. And oh, the glory that awaits
the true follower of Christ, who has cast overboard all that
the world calls good and grand, and taking the Bible as his directory,
walks as Jesus did.