"You have never had need to work for your food and your fathers never made you work so hard that your bones cried. The men who have accomplished much and been used of God have been men of labor in the ministry. This is hard and it will cost you everything. And by the time you are an old man you will be broken, but strong in the things of God. Oh, my dear friends, who cares about your best life now? [Think of] eternity! The day you stand in those granite halls before the Lord of glory and kings and the greatest men on earth are divided and split and culled, some cast into eternal hell and some invited into eternal glory live for eternity. These Olympians, how majestic they are, but only for a moment. They start training when they are four and five years old. They never do anything but train until they are 22. They run a nine second race for a medal they hang up and that’s it. Cannot you give equal for eternal things? This is not some martyr thing in which we uselessly give our lives to nothing only to be pulverized without hope. No. We serve God and God will honor us. We affix our hope on that and that gives us strength, strength. If you are a child of the king nothing on this earth can satisfy you, nothing. Men, you are to be absorbed in these things of godliness and character. Men, I plead with you. Listen to me. This is so important…Get yourself in your study. Drink deep. Be so absorbed in the knowledge and the knowing of God… We are men of God. We are ministers of the most high. There should be an otherness about us. We should have a distant gaze in our eyes towards a distant. The greatest thing we can do for our people is to be men of God absorbed in the things of God so that when we open our mouths the Word of God comes out." - Paul Washer
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 23:27:03 +0000
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