"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32)
Were the church a pure and Spirit-filled body, wholly led and directed by spiritual considerations, certainly the purest and the saintliest men and women would be the ones most appreciated and most honored, but the opposite is true!
Godliness is no longer valued, except for the very old or the very dead!
The saintly souls are forgotten in the whirl of religious activity. The noisy, the self-assertive, the entertaining are sought after and rewarded in every way, with gifts, crowds, offerings and publicity. The Christlike, the self-forgetting, the other worldly are jostled aside to make room for the latest converted play-boy who is usually not too well converted and still very much a playboy.
The whole shortsighted philosophy that ignores eternal qualities and majors in trivialities is a form of unbelief. These Christians who embody such a philosophy are clamoring after present reward; they are too impatient to wait for the Lord's time! The true saint sees farther than this; he cares little for passing values; he looks forward eagerly to the day when eternal things shall come into their own, and godliness will be found to be all that matters.
The wise Christian will be content to wait for that day, and in the meantime, he will serve his generation in the will of God.
~A. W. Tozer~
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