Good News For Youth (GNFY) published under the oversight of the Alkire Rd Church of Christ elders and posted by permission of the editor.
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the world of life or nature is directed toward some particular end.
Work without a definite aim is energy wasted. The child crawls in order that the may walk; he makes sounds in order that he may someday speak and be understood. The same kind of progression is seen in nature. March’s winds are followed by April’s showers to bring out May’s flowers.
Our task is to build a life
For students, graduation day is often the culmination of their ambitions. They have studied and worked and planned, and now the "end crowns the work." But strange to say, now that the goal has been reached it becomes clear that this is not "finished," but commencement. It’s a threshold of another larger, broader, fuller life. |
 The course has not been
finished at all. Now one must find another point in the distance
far ahead at which to steer. One must aim at something, or he’ll never
reach anything. As Robert Browning says, "A man’s reach must
exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?"
Much is involved in choosing an occupation. One must consider the greatness and responsibility of life. Whatever your career decision may be, let me remind you to aim higher than that.
Make your life count! No more worthy goal could be established than that which the apostle Paul set for himself:
"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14) Now that’s meaningful! |
-– John Gipson, June 2000 –-
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