Gold Nugget 361 - What We Carry Out

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       Let us study, not so much what we may secure, as what we are able to enjoy existence without.  Men multiply their cares often as they multiply their means; and some men, with competency in a cottage, have not been sorry that they lost a palace.

      “Contentment is great gain;” it sets the mind free from anxious care; it prevents the straining after false effect; it has more time to enjoy the flowers at its feet, instead of straining to secure the meadows of the far-away estate.

      Men must leave everything; they can carry nothing away.  That is certain; and yet the word must be read thoughtfully.  Nothing save conscience and character and memory.  Still the words are true, that we can carry nothing out; for these are not “things,” but part of our personality.  The body returns to the dust, but the spirit – to God who gave it.  Let this check all undue anxiety, and cure our foolish envy as we look around upon all the coveted positions of men.  “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we carry nothing out.”

 

The Pulpit Commentary, I Timothy p. 134, I Timothy 6:6, (W. M. Statham)

 

Gold Nugget 361

What We Carry Out

 

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