We should seek only the best things in life. If every one did, this would be an ideal world. The trouble is, however, that many knowing the good yet choose the evil. What shall we call the drift in human nature that causes it to gravitate so often and so easily toward lower rather than rise upward toward higher things? We need not trouble about the philosophy of it, but it is worth while for us to find some way of overcoming the unhappy tendency. There is a way. It may not be easy – the easy course is just to let ourselves drift – but we know too well what the end of this will be. We should be brave enough to take ourselves vigorously in hand and to get our faces turned toward the best things. Nothing will drift upstream; we shall have to use the oars if we want our boat to go that way. But that is the way to the best things.
What are the things that are worthiest and best? We do not need to say condemning words about the things of this world. It is our Father’s world. It is full of beauty. The Creator saw when it was finished that it was all very good. We are to accept our place I life contentedly and cheerfully, whatever the limitations, whatever the hardness, and set about living in such a way that we shall make one little spot of the world as much as possible like heaven.
We have only to turn to the Scriptures if we would learn what are the best things. Nothing can be worth while which will ever perish. We are immortal and only immortal things will meet our deepest needs. Nothing is best which we cannot carry with us when we go away from earth. We cannot carry money, or jewel, or estates, into the other world, hence these are not the best things.
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