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Have You Found Yourself?
Matthew 16:25-26
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There once was a boy who had great difficulty remembering
where he had left things. So he wrote himself a note just
before he went to sleep: "Your shoes are under the bed; your
clothes are on the chair; your cap is hanging in the closet;
your money, your knife, and your baseball cards are on the
bureau; and you are in the bed." In the morning he found
everything precisely as the note indicated; but when he looked
in the bed, he was not there. So he could not find himself.
I am told a good businessman has an inventory indicating
the location of every tool, every piece of equipment and-ma-
terial he owns. What a strange commentary on our lives -
that modern man knows how to find things, but has a most dif-
ficult time finding himself.
A well-known German novelist, Hermann Hessee, asserted:
"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
I have become a writer, but I have not become a human being."
At the passing of a prominent man in one of the northern
states an editorial epitaph was composed, almost in jest, yet
it tacks a terrible truth on the wall of our awareness: "Born
a human being; Died a wholesale grocer." Now this is no dig
aimed at grocers. It could be said of most all of us. Fail-
ing to find identity in ourselves we seek it in possessions or
position, neither of which are necessarily evil. Yet, what a
sad commentary on eternal souls, made in His image; we have
lost ourselves and our struggle for identity is expressed in
what we have or what we do - instead of who we are.
Dressing this great truth in common clothing, Jesus Christ
presents this poser: "What shall it profit a man if he shall
gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" "Soul" means
"life," "yourself," "you!" So He is declaring: "You, you
who are always thinking in terms of profit and loss, let's
take this thing all the way to the extreme. If you could own
everything in, ...
Have You Found Yourself?
Matthew 16:25-26
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There once was a boy who had great difficulty remembering
where he had left things. So he wrote himself a note just
before he went to sleep: "Your shoes are under the bed; your
clothes are on the chair; your cap is hanging in the closet;
your money, your knife, and your baseball cards are on the
bureau; and you are in the bed." In the morning he found
everything precisely as the note indicated; but when he looked
in the bed, he was not there. So he could not find himself.
I am told a good businessman has an inventory indicating
the location of every tool, every piece of equipment and-ma-
terial he owns. What a strange commentary on our lives -
that modern man knows how to find things, but has a most dif-
ficult time finding himself.
A well-known German novelist, Hermann Hessee, asserted:
"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
I have become a writer, but I have not become a human being."
At the passing of a prominent man in one of the northern
states an editorial epitaph was composed, almost in jest, yet
it tacks a terrible truth on the wall of our awareness: "Born
a human being; Died a wholesale grocer." Now this is no dig
aimed at grocers. It could be said of most all of us. Fail-
ing to find identity in ourselves we seek it in possessions or
position, neither of which are necessarily evil. Yet, what a
sad commentary on eternal souls, made in His image; we have
lost ourselves and our struggle for identity is expressed in
what we have or what we do - instead of who we are.
Dressing this great truth in common clothing, Jesus Christ
presents this poser: "What shall it profit a man if he shall
gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" "Soul" means
"life," "yourself," "you!" So He is declaring: "You, you
who are always thinking in terms of profit and loss, let's
take this thing all the way to the extreme. If you could own
everything in, ...
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