Day 29: Wednesdays with Words {National Poetry Month & 30 Day Blog Challenge}

From Dr. John R. Rice's book The Golden Path to Successful Personal Soul Winning.

You should give soul winning priority.

The preacher should face the fact that winning souls is more important than preaching a sermon that would not win a soul. The Sunday school teacher should face the truth that to win one of her pupils is more important than teaching the lesson. The church member out visiting should face it that it is far more important to win a soul than it is to get someone to attend a service, the Sunday school class or to join the church. Of course the preaching service, the Sunday school class, the visit in the homes, all properly may be used to win souls or lead toward soul winning. But the end itself, soul winning, is more important than any of the means. You will have to give soul winning priority.

{p. 65}

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Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

This world will pass away but the Word of God will remain forever. (Isaiah 40:8)