The Glory of Christ
The Glory of Christ in His Person 

The Scripture takes the foolishness of men to task who spend their money on what is not bread and spend their labor on what does not eternally profit. They spend their time and resources chasing after things that perish with their use in place of the substance that sanctifies their faith for eternity. What do men spend the majority of their thoughts on in their use of time? Do they not waste them upon how they plan to make provision to satisfy the lusts of the flesh and what blinds them from the glory of Christ (Rom.13:14)?Do they not worry how they may advance in the glory of the rewards of men so that they are transformed into the image and mold of this world that makes them earthly, unspiritual, and stupid for use in the kingdom of God? Oh, the blindness, the darkness, and foolishness of poor sinners!! Do they really realize Who they despise in this? Do they realize what they are giving in exchange for such momentary pleasures?  

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John Owen; pg. [31]