Answer to yesterdays quote is - the movie On Borrowed Time starring Lionel Barrymore 1939.
What movie is this Quote of the day from: "I'm coming down there Booker!" & "They're using some type of code we don't recognize like Big Joe and Crap Game and Oddball." Both from same movie.
JIM ELLIOT:
Born in Portland Oregon 1927 he accepted Christ at age 6. Attended Wheaton College 1945. He married in 1953 and died in 1956 within days of his first contact with the Aucas Indian tribe who had never heard about Jesus. As a boy he dreamed of going to sea. He got his wish by sailing to Ecuador to bring God's word to unreached tribes in South America. Jim and 4 other men were killed by Auca lances while trying to make personal contact with the tribe. Inspired by their dedication to bring God's word to unreached people, hundreds of young people around the world volunteered to become missionaries in their place. Eventually two of the mens wives live among the Aucas and learned their language and translated the Bible for them. Jim knew that Christians are sometimes called by God to "fall to the ground and die," like seeds, so that good fruit will grow. (John 12:24)
Jim also said "He is no fool, who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he can never lose."
Solomon (cont)
Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king's successor do than what has already been done? I saw that wisdom is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both. Then I thought in my heart, The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise? I said in my heart, This too is meaningless. For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man too must die!
Analysis: Death is the great equalizer. No matter what we attain in this life. While this seems to apply to earthly reasoning, God makes it clear in Eccl 12:14, and many other verses in the old and new testament that what we do here (in this life) has a great impact on eternity. God speaks of laying up treasure in heaven where no one can steal it and it doesn't decay or rust. I find it amazing how God's word always has a ring of truth to it when I read or hear it. Maybe its the fact that Gods law is written on our heart and when we hear it or read it it somehow connects with our hearts creating that true feeling somehow.
Good night all. Sleep well and "Drive careful" as my dad used to say.
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