One day an Oxford undergraduate, after a night of dissipation, was lying on his bed in his chambers when one of his own set of idlers came into his room & said to him:
"You are a fool. You are wasting your time & your
chance. Your way of going on is silly & senseless. Why not wake up & do
something worthy?"
That very moment the young man, who had been letting youth's
precious moments pass by unused, came to himself & resolved to change his
way. He ordered his servant to lay the fire the next morning at five o'clock.
Thus he began to pursue that course of study &
application which in time made him one of the noted men of his day through his
celebrated books, like Paley's Evidences - a great defender of the Christian
faith.
- (moreillustrations.com)
“Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it
slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.” - David Brainerd.
1 Cor 15:58 (GNT): “So then, my dear friends, stand firm and
steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing
you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.”
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