Minute Meditations

”Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there. MOVE!!” When we read this little saying we were impressed by its logic. We can certainly apply it to the things of God.

So often it would appear that when one learns the Truth and is baptized, they then settle down in complacency and do less than they did when they were searching for it. Recently we explored an old abandoned gold mine and certainly a person looking for gold did not stop when they finally found the vein. It is very difficult to discover gold as it is usually buried hundreds of feet in the earth in some of the most remote places. Once found, the work of digging, crushing and refining begins in earnest. No prospector in his right mind would spend a lifetime searching for gold and then fail to work it once discovered.

This same principle applies to the Truth. In order to find it, we must search and dig. ”It is the glory of God to conceal a thing.” Not only has God hid gold in the depths of the earth, but he has also hid His Truth from the wise and prudent. It is up to us to search the scriptures daily as did those who lived in Berea. It is only by being diligent in our studies that we ever come to a knowledge of God’s Truth. This is the reason most people never find gold or the Truth.

But what do we once we have found it? We know what the gold prospector does. We know what Jesus told us the man who found the treasure hid in the field did. With joy he sold everything he possessed and bought that field. Being on the right track calls for action. MOVE!! We know that works will not save us but it is also true that we will not not be saved without them.

It is interesting to notice that when Jesus described the judgment seat, that those who were condemned were cast out, not for the bad things they had done, but simply because they had done nothing! ”I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: etc.”

It is probably safe to say that our most besetting sin is that of laziness. The man with one talent did not steal it, he buried it. When his Master returned he was quite willing to give it back but this was unacceptable. The Lord wanted more. He wants more of us too. Now that we have discovered the Truth, what are we doing with it’? Do we behave as a group of dedicated followers of Jesus on fire for the Truth? Do we say with Jesus, ”My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work.”?

There is no doubt but that we are on the right track. We have found the gold mine. It is simply a question of what we are doing with it. Very soon we are going to be called upon to show our Master the fruit of our labours. Let us pray that he will not find us emptyhanded.