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Keep
Your
Eyes
on
the
Goal
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have written of the
Seven Laws of
SUCCESS.
They are really the seven
laws of
LIFE.
Most people do not know, or
practice, or apply a single one of them.
The first is to have the
R IGHT GOAL.
That goal
involves realizing the
PUR POSE
of your life-the
reason why God had you to be born- the reason
you draw breath and exist-and it involves
realizing HOW to live this temporary existence so
asto arrive at that goal.
That GOAL-God's PURPOSE for having put the
breath of life in you- is that you be born of Goo,
to share with Him the GLORY of creation, to
inherit His divine NATURE, to be LIKE HIM- tO do
what He does, to accomplish what He
accomplishes, enjoy what He ENJOYS- peace,
happiness, joy, resplendent glory in LIFE
EVERLASTING.
No other goal could be as great.
It
is superlative.
But consider: What are
you, now?
Just a mass of
matter, put together like a machine. Your present
existence has to be constantly SUSTAINED. You have
to keep drawing a breath of air in to your lungs
about every four or five seconds. You have to eat
food on the average of three times a day. You have
to take care of eliminating the impurities from
food , and of bathing and cleansing your body. You
have to maintain and sustain your physical anatomy
to keep on existing- and even then you are ageing
and degenerating every day and every year-and
the most certain thing in this existence we call
"life" is that this machine process is going to run
down-YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
Yet mos t people keep on, day after day, year
after year, pumping that existence into themselves,
with NO MORE J>URPOSE than to try to be
cornfortable, free from pain and to be pleasing the
five senses- with their minds on the passing
physical and material things of the moment- things
that are not lasting, and are soon gone.
August.1981
Unless God's own CHARACTER is being formed
and developed in your mind and your life, replacing
the human nature that is there now, you shall have
missed your GOAL. God's PURPOSE is tO CREATE
within human beings, during this experience we
call physical life, a new and perfect CHARACTER, so
that you and others may be
given
eterna!
life- self-containing, inherent life.
That character is developed through instruction
from the Creator Himself. What kind of
instruction? I nstruction in the true
knowledge-knowledge of God's PURPOSE for
you- knowledge of and about Goo- and
knowledge of HOw TO uvE. J esus Christ said you
must actually uvE BY the words of the Bible.
lt
is
your GUIDE TO LJVING- your INSTRUCTION BOOK
tbe M aker sent along to instruct you HOW to
OPERATE this mechanism that is vou.
More, you must study His Word-your
BIBLE-to find what is wrong in what you now
believe, a nd what you are now DOING that is
wrong- to be CORRECTED and reproved by it. You
must study it to Jet it INSTRUCT you in the ways of
God's RIGHTEOUSNESS- His WAY
OF
LIFE. And
then you must
devote
yourself to LIVING IT!
This
kind of Christian life-the only kind that
truly IS Christian- requires, as the Bible
emphasizes repeatedly, zealous DILIGENCE. You
must CONCENTRATE On it. You must be DEDICATED
to it.
lt
requires utter CONSECRATION. l t requires
total EARNESTNESS.
lt requires, in addition, the application of the
other six laws of succEss- education, in which the
Bible is the main textbook; good physical health;
ORIVE, Or COnCentrated DILIGENCE and EFFORT;
resourcefulness; sticking to it-enduring; and
continua! contact with, and the guidance, help, and
power of Goo.
Remember what a GLORIOUS GOAl. we have
before us! Make it your supreme overall life
VOCATION, and WORK HARD AT IT! O