Proper Priorities
“A day is coming upon us all when the value of everything will be altered. A day is coming when banknotes will be as useless as rages, and gold will be as worthless as the dust of the earth. A day is coming when thousands will care nothing for the things for which they once lived, and will desire nothing so much as the things which they once despised. The mansions and palaces will be forgotten in the desire of a “house not made with hands.” The favor of the rich and great will be remembered no more, in the longing of the favor of the King of Kings. The silks, and satins, and velvets, and laces will be lost sight of in the anxious need of the robe of Christ’s righteousness. All will be altered, all will be changed in the great day of the Lord’s return.”
(J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion (1883; repr., Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977), page 40)
