“Nothing”

1^st Timothy 6: 4, 7 

Some time back I read the Parable of “Two Tear Drops,”  and I was reminded of it when I read these two verses from 1^st Timothy 6.  Two tear drops were floating down the river of life; one said to the other:  “Who are you?”  “I was shed by a girl who loved a man and lost him,  who are you?” “Well, I am the tear drop who got him.” 

Many times we search after godliness in the form  of worldly things,  only to wish we did not have them.  Also, we mourn over things God withholds from us,  but if we really knew it,  we would cry many times over if He allowed us to receive them. 

When Paul said,  “We brought nothing into the world,  and it is certain we can carry nothing out;”  we are to understand that “out of nothing God created the world.”  (Gen. 1: 1-3)  This is the only way to account for creation,  to begin with God, self existent,  who created something out of nothing.  The evolutionists has to start with something.  Where did that something come from?  Man can rearrange,  and redesign,  but he cannot create.  Jesus is the way,  and His Gospel is the power to save. 

Do you know what makes a “good for nothing church member?”  For a child of God to lose the qualities which make him salt.  Salt seasons,  saves and preserves.  Jesus said: “If salt have lost his savor,  it is thenceforth good for nothing.” 

Paul had the right idea when he said; “As having nothing, and  yet  possessing  all  things.”    Think  just  how  much the

Christian possesses.   Dying, we live.  Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.  Poor, yet making many rich. 

Conclusion:  “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,  and lose his own soul.  Or what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.” 

If we lose our soul, we have gained nothing in this life.  “Prepare to meet God.” 

In “HIS” Service

Roy