Things I Have Learned

by Bob Jones

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890840229
• ISBN13: 9780890840221
• Release Date: January 1944
• Publisher: BJU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"

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It is becoming more and more difficult to find a book that speaks with common sense and moreover, sound Christian advise for young people. In a world of New Age thinking that has even crept its way into "Christianity", what is a young person to expect when he hears or reads "spiritual philosophies" that make him feel content and "happy"... but at best, are only "half truths".Someone very near to me recently wrote the following,"as hard as i work in this life i will end up with as much as you when we are both dead."And this in part, along with Matthew 6:20a, 21; was my reply -- an except from Bob Jones' book:"A young man came to me one time and said, 'Life isn't worth living. I am in trouble. I am a failure.' I said, 'How old are you?' He said, 'Thirty years old.' Think of a man thirty years old saying life isn't worth living! I am sixty, and let me tell you something. Life was never as interesting as it is to me now. I have a thousand jobs I want to do and a thousand dreams I am dreaming. Talk about life not being worth living! Think of a fellow's ending his own life -- committing suicide!That fellow said, 'I am going to end my life.' I said, 'How are you going to end your life?' He said, 'I am going to blow my brains out.' I said, 'You can't blow your brains out; you haven't any brains to blow out.' He looked at me and said, 'Don't laugh at me. I am going to end my life.' I said, 'You can't end it. You can blow a hole in your head. You can got up on the house and jump off. You can close the doors, stop all the cracks, and turn on the gas. You can go uptown and buy some strychnine at the drug store and take it. But you can't stop living. We will take your old body and put you to bed with a shovel and throw dirt in your face, but you can't stop living!'Young people, listen to me! You've got live. Like it or not like it, you have got it to do! You have to live forever and forever and forever!" (11,12)This is book that will keep on speaking to you, young or old, not just for the moment but for a long time to come.