Work Out Your Own Salvation

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Work Out Your Own Salvation By Joseph S. Peery

Your father cannot save you. No one but you can. God will surely help, but you must do your part. You cannot dele- gate this great responsibility to another. Dodge it though we may for awhile, we will finally come to the conclusion that the most important thing facing us is our own salvation. The quicker we act on this big thought the better, and the fewer debts we will have to pay. — "Every day is a judgment day" every day is in the balance. It is a great blessing to be born under the covenant, but for a child of light to throw away his heritage for a "mess of pot- tage" is the saddest thing of the age. The Savior said, as recorded in Matthew 8:11-12: "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. "But the children of the kingom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." We are children of the kingdom, and we do not want to be cast out. Then let us turn from time-killing pleasure and frivolity to real service in the Kingdom of God. This service will pay the biggest of all dividends. We cannot comprehend the eternal happiness that such service will bring, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (1 Cor. 2:9.)