The True Measure
“Sell what belongs to you, and give in charity. Make yourselves purses that will not wear out—an inexhaustible treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes near, or moth works ruin. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
Watchfulness
“Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight; and be like men who are waiting for their Master’s return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once. Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and bid them take their places at table, and will come and wait upon them. Whether it is late at night, or in the early morning that he comes, if he finds all as it should be, then happy are they. This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into. Do you also prepare, for when you are least expecting him the Son of Man will come.”
—Luke.
Heaven Very Near
My Father in heaven, teach me that heaven is very near, as near to me as my need. May I not conceive the home-land as being far away, almost beyond the call of my weak voice! May I think that even my whispers are near in the beautiful country.
—J. H. Jowett.