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 A Foundation for the Future

A Foundation for the Future

1 Tim. 6:18-19
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; [19] Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.


Our actions here are putting in the foundations on which the eternal building of our future life shall be reared. When a man excavates and lays the first courses of the stones of his building, he thereby determines every successive stage of it, until the headstone is brought forth with rejoicing. We are laying foundations in that profound sense in this world.… It seems to me that all that we do know of life and of God’s dealings in regard to man leads us to suppose that the next world is a world of continuations, not of beginnings; that is the second volume of the book, and hangs logically and necessarily upon the first that was finished when a man dies.…
And so, dear friends, let us remember that this is the reason why our smallest acts are so tremendous that by our actions we are making character, and that that character is destiny, here and hereafter. You are putting in the foundations of the building that you have to live in; see that they are of such a sort as will support a house eternal in the heavens.…
Remember that it is for you, resting on Christ, to treasure up eternal life; for you to build on that sure foundation gold and silver and precious stones which may stand the fire; for you by faithful continuance in well-doing, to lay hold of that for which you have been laid hold of by Jesus Christ. May it be true of all of us that “our works do follow us.”

Alexander Maclaren, Exposition of Holy Scripture

 2007/10/28 20:47Profile





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