Rev. A.J. Ogden

In this brief period of time on earth most of us worry, hurry, scurry, fret, complain and fuss about things which do not please us. I think it was Abraham Lincoln who was heard to say, “Most people are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be.” In other words, being content and happy is a matter of choice in large measure.

Some of the most miserable people you can find have a lot of money and all that money can buy! But it cannot buy contentment. Some of the richest people I have known do not have much of this world’s goods. Being filled with God who is the source of all happiness is all they need.

A hundred years from now it won’t matter whether I lived in a mansion and had one hundred servants to wait on me. What difference will it make after I’ve gone to my eternal dwelling place? Would it matter that I was poor down here? What if I had to live in a pup tent and had to swim a muddy river to go to work? No, it won’t matter if I went barefoot and lived a primitive life of hardships here. When the things of earth grow strangely dim, we will know that we spent entirely too much time and energy worrying about things that were not nearly important as we thought they were.

All that will really matter one hundred years from now is what you did with Jesus. Did you accept Him as Master, Lord and Saviour, or did you reject Him? If you were born again it will be Heaven forever. If you did not come to know Him, Hell is your eternal home.

John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”