Tozer for Tuesday

Pleasure seeking is nothing else but a reaction to fear. “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” If I am going to die tomorrow, I might as well make good of it while I can and make what I can of life. So eat, drink and be merry today, for tomorrow that deadly thing appears, that fearful thing, death. That is the way some people act; they go wild. They do not want to face the anxieties, and so they go out and scatter anxieties for a little time by worldly pleasures. That is why if you can think of a new thing to please the people and make them play, then you can be sure of a lot of money.—A.W. Tozer, Living as a Christian, 205

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He wrote/spoke those words over 60 years ago. I wonder what he would say today? We've made that time look tame in our chasing after the wind...
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