Chapter 1 A Consecrated Life - Far Eastern Bible College

How frail your life is! The news is filled everyday with reports of
people dying in aeroplane crashes, earthquakes, typhoons and floods.
When you hear of disasters like these, you might be tempted to think:
“that will never happen to me. I am really quite safe over here.” But that
is probably the way every victim of these disasters must have thought.
None of them ever thought or expected that they would die at the very
next moment. Dear reader, your life may be brought to an end at any
time, even at a time when you least expect death to come. And since
you could die at any time you should therefore:
II. Make Provisions for Life After Death,
and Not Just for This Life
This is the second guideline you should follow, if we do not want to
become fools in God’s sight. Don’t you think that it is an utterly foolish
thing to make full provision for ourselves for this life but none for our
life after death? This reveals nothing less than a lack of foresight. Many
people in this world are very good at making long term plans for their
future and even for their children’s future and grandchildren’s future.
Many know how to save, how to invest and insure themselves against
every contingency in life. But the sad thing is that they do not look far
enough. All their long term planning is not long enough. Their planning
stops short of death and makes no consideration at all for life in the long
eternity of millions of years that lie beyond this present life. Those who
make provisions and long term plans only for this present life seem to
overlook one very simple and obvious question, the question that is
found in verse 20: “Whose shall those things be, which thou hast
provided?”
Please think about this question as it applies to your own life:
“Whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?” You spend
about half of your life getting everything you need and want in life, and
then you spend the other half of your life trying to maintain and keep all
the things you have gained in the first half of your life. But then, at the
end of the day, the big question comes, “Whose shall these things be?”
Will they remain in your possession? Can you continue to hold on to
them and keep them with you for ever and ever?
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