Now Paul puts some questions. “Who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also give us freely all things?” (Romans 8:32) When God the Father gave Christ, the son of his bosom, he literally gave up all that heaven had. He gave the richest jewel that heaven possessed. And if he has given us his Son, is there anything too great for us to ask? If a man should give me a diamond worth one hundred thousand dollars, I think I would make bold to ask him for a little piece of brown paper to carry it away in. If the Lord has given me the Son of his bosom, I can ask for anything. How shall he not freely give us all things?
-D.L. Moody
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to fill?”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
It’ ironic that a society that is built on the very ideology of individualism and self-reliance is so consumed with imitation and conformity when it comes to consumerism.
“Most of our players when they end playing basketball they are going to be living for another 40 years or so. And so I don’t know how long that money is going to last,” he added. “Even if they made every prudent investment that they could possibly make, I don’t know at what level they are going to be able to live. But I think after a while it just becomes a principle. For a lot of these players that is what it’s about.”
How will they ever survive with the meager $millions/yr salaries they earn? Sympathetic at the pathetic.
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