What Are You Living For?

What are you living for? Most, perhaps, live to enjoy present things as 
much as possible--and to escape hell at last. Have your ideas, your hopes, your aspirings--ever 
risen beyond these two things?

Are you living only for SELF? Is that all? What a poor object--what a 
base and narrow aim! What an insignificant, empty, hollow being is yours--wasted, shriveled, useless! "My purpose is to give life in all its fullness" John 10:10.

What stands between you and that life? It is SELF! What separates you from God? It is SELF--your love of self, your admiration of self, your confidence in self. It is SELF which is blinding 
and bewildering you! What is it that is dragging you down, and making you cleave to the dust? It is SELF! And what is it that will before long be your everlasting ruin? It is SELF!

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants 
to come with Me--he must deny himself, take up 
his cross, and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). Horatius Bonar