The Most Profitable Investment

[Thompson, Darryl]

The Most Profitable Investment 

     I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Ps.
139:14.  

     Only one lease of life is granted us here, and the inquiry with
every one should be, How can I invest my life that it may yield the
greatest profit? Life is valuable only as we improve it for the benefit
of our fellow creatures and the glory of God. Careful cultivation of the
abilities with which the Creator has endowed us will fit us for
usefulness here and eternal life in the world to come.  

     That time is well spent which is directed to the establishment and
preservation of sound physical and mental health. . . . It is easy to
lose health, but it is difficult to regain it. . . .  

     We can ill afford to dwarf or cripple a single function of mind or
body by overwork or by abuse of any part of the living machinery. So
sure as we do this, we must suffer the consequences. It is our first
duty to God and our fellow beings to develop all our powers. Every
faculty with which the Creator has endowed us should be cultivated to
the highest degree of perfection, that we may be able to do the greatest
amount of good of which we are capable. The grace of Christ is needed to
refine and purify the mind; this will enable us to see and correct our
deficiencies, and to improve that which is excellent in our characters.
This work, wrought for ourselves in the strength and name of Jesus, will
be of more benefit to society than any sermon we might preach. The
influence of a well-balanced, well-ordered life is of inestimable value.
. . .  

     There are few as yet who are aroused sufficiently to understand how
much their habits of diet have to do with their health, their
characters, their usefulness in this world, and their eternal destiny.
The appetite should ever be in subjection to the moral and intellectual
organs. The body should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the
body. All should understand in regard to their own physical frames, that
with the psalmist they may be able to exclaim, "I will praise thee; for
I am fearfully and wonderfully made."  

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