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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“This is the way of life: first, you shall love the God who made you, secondly, your neighbour as yourself: and all things you would not want to happen to you, do not to another. The teaching of these words is this: Bless those who curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast on behalf of those who persecute you: for what thanks will be due to you, if you love only those who love you? Do not the Gentiles also do the same? But love those who hate you, and you shall not have an enemy.”
~ The Didache, also known as The Teachings of the 12 Apostles (an early Christian document written between 80–90 AD)
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

Have Hope for the Future

Sometimes certain sinful people seem to have it so good, and we may be tempted to envy their prosperity or success. But wise Solomon tells us not to do that. Why? Because this life is not all there is. In fact, compared to the eternity that lies beyond, it’s but a speck in time, a fleeting moment. He says, “Do not let your heart envy sinners but be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day; For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off” (Proverbs 23:171-18). For those who are zealous for the Lord, daily walking and talking with Him, the most prosperous and successful eternity awaits, but for those who take the brief rewards of sin, there is only spiritual poverty and destitution beyond the grave. We have a hope that cannot be taken away, whist they have present advantages they cannot keep. It is a strange irony that some, understanding the principles of wise investment, make money on earth that they cannot keep, but fail to see the greater value of investing in the lasting rewards of Heaven! Revive your sure hope of a great future.