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by Dr. Dick Hillis General Director Overseas Crusades, Inc.
—he will own the Empire State
do not hear him. He turns to the psychiatrist. Week after week that probing, agonizing fifty-minute hour eats at his vitals and his bank account. Then the light dawns. The prober has as many problems as the probed. Hopelessness inundates him. The mountains are falling on him. Fear chokes him. Suddenly he has the answer. The four hours until nightfall seem like four years. He empties the little bottle and drops his head on the pillow. When morning comes, they find his light still burn ing. Jesus Christ put it on the line, “ And how does a man benefit if he gains the whole world and loses his soul in the process?” (Mark 8:6, Living Gos pels). What can be so wasted as a wasted life? But there is another way. It is called “ redeem ing the time.” “ Time buying” is living in time in such a way as to make it count for eternity. I must make the choice. Whose kingdom will I build? Mine or God’s? If I choose to build my kingdom, when I arrive at the place I want to go, my soul will experience the awful nausea o f “ des tination sickness.” If, with devotion and determination, my choice is God’s kingdom, the smile o f His approval, the sound o f His “well done” will make it a thousand times worthwhile. True . . . nothing is so wasted as a wasted life. Equally true . . . nothing is so satisfying as a life spent for God. ' DE
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* Building. If it is fame—he will be the first to reach the moon. If it is position—he will be president o f the com pany or governor o f the state. With deep devotion and ruthless determination that are both commendable and dangerous, he drives ahead: commendable because zeal is com mendable; dangerous because he allows nothing to stop him. He has little time for friends, family or God. At long last he reaches the top. He has scaled his mountain. His world is at his feet. He takes a deep breath only to discover that the air is too thin. Suddenly he feels weak and dizzy. He is on the top all right, but he is alone. He struggled so long to reach his goal, all the time believing that at the end o f his rainbow he would find satisfaction. He climbed and conquered and now it is all so meaningless. His head whirls. He tries to think. “Where now?” he asks. Now that he has arrived “ destination sickness” overcomes him. His world is reeling in front o f him . . . he vomits. Then he turns to the bottle. For a time it helps . . . until it enslaves him. Cracks appear in his world. Desperate, he reaches for the pill box. Now he is on the merry-go-round . . . the big bottle by day and the little bottle by night. Friends pull back. His world is crumbling. He screams for help. His world travels too fast. They
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