“The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God” (Psalm 14:2).
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who divided man into three classes; seekers after knowledge, seekers after honour and seekers after profit. As a philosopher of the world, you might think that he got it about right. But in today’s world, I would divide men into only two classes; seekers after nothing and seekers after God.
Seekers after nothing include both Christians and non-Christians; they are those who follow their instincts and their glands and allow their spiritual and intellectual equipment to rust and decay through lack of exercise. They are passively wedded to their televisions and other electronic gadgetry which is incapable of adding anything to their knowledge of God or to any sort of moral restructuring; indeed, the opposite is true. Although they may attend Church every Sunday and keep other religious observances, they differ from the world in no other significant way. The world will never hate them.
The seekers after God are no better by nature than the rest of mankind and, indeed, in their lifetime they may have been worse, but they are marked out by their insatiable thirst after God and their hunger for righteous, faithfulness and holiness. They may not be many, but these God-hungry souls give testimony to their divine election by their agonizing to enter in upon the narrow way, through which only it is possible to obtain eternal life. These will be hated, by both the world and the apostate Church.
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