LORD, Mold Me And Make Me After THY Will

What a man IS

(J.R. Miller)

There are virtues, fruits of character,
treasures, spoils of moral conquests--
which men carry with them out of this world.
Someone says, "The only thing that walks
back from the tomb with the mourners
and refuses to be buried, is character."

This is true. What a man IS--
survives him. It never can be buried.
His character lingers about his home,
when his footsteps come there no
more. It lives in the community
where he was known.
And that same thing--
what a man IS--
he carries with him
into the next life.

Money and rank and circumstances
and earthly gains, he leaves behind him--
but his character, he takes with
 him into eternity!

"But now, O LORD, THOU art 
our FATHER; we are the clay, and 
THOU our Potter; and we all are 
the work of THY hand." Isaiah 64:8

 ~  ~  ~  ~  ~

GraceGems has published Timothy Shay Arthur's helpful 3 page article,

"Manly Gentleness". Must reading for men!