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Many sincere persons would like to

find a way of life that brings peace

and contentment now and assure8

the enjsymmt of a seawe future.

This book Am been published in the

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CONTENTS

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1 Making the Right Choice .............. 5

2 Ehcouraglng Aid to Stick to Our Decision .... 15

3 A Hope with a Sure Gua~itmtee ....... ... . 29

4 Food That Is Essential for Everlasting Life ... 41

............ 50

6 Submission to Authority That Is Rewarding , . . 62

5 The Perfect E~8~ple--Chrisi

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OF PENNSYLVANIA

of Exemplary Conduct ............. 9T

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8 Help for Bearing Up Under Suffering 112

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9 Men Who Can Aid You to Succeed 140

10 Safeguard Your Chistian Hope .......... 148

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that can be! And especially if it holds

promise of a secure and happy future. Can we

personally choose such a way of life? There is

sound reason for believing that we can.

It is essential, however, to make that choice

without delay. For one thing, our human life-

span covers at most only a few decades, and it

holds many uncertainties. Who can count on being

able to sknd many years trying out first this

approach to life and then that one, hoping even-

tually to find the best way? Choices made may

seem good--at the time. But how often do we

hear it said: 'If I could only do it all over again'?

Not only this, but there is reason to believe that

time is limited for the human race as a whole to

find the way to make the right choice.

HELP IN FINDING TEE WAY

The question is, then, who can tell us just

what will make our life really meaningful? Who

can point us to a way that will result in no regrets,

one that definitely assures a happy, secure future?

Logically, should it not be the One who made

mankind? Certainly -our Creator knows the way

of life that is best for us. And he reveals this to

us in his inspired Word. But he does not force

1. What way of life would be truly satisfying?

2. With reference to life, why ts there an urgency about making

the right choice?

3. Who can tell ua about what makes life really meaningful,

and why?

Makihg the Right Choice

A LIFE with true meaning-how satisfying

CHOOSING THE BEST WAY OF LIFE

MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE

of one man every nation of men ... for them to

seek God, if they might grope for him and really

find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from

each one of us. For by him we have life and move

and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among

you have said, Tor we are also his progeny."'

-Acts 17:24-28.

AS the "offspring" of our Creator, what choice,

do we all face? The continuing words of the in-

spired address point to it, saying:

"Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of

God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine

Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something

scuIptured by the art and contrivance of man. True,

God has overlooked the times of such ignorance,

yet now he is telling mankind that they should all

everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in

which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in

righteousness by a man whom he has appointed,

and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in

that he has resurrected him from the dead." (Acts

17: 29-31)

In harmony with this, there basically are just

two choices: People can choose to turn to the

Most High and submit to his will; or they can

choose to continue living a lie that ignores him

and his guidelines for happy living. What would

our turning to God include?

Most importantly, it includes accepting the

one through whom he "purposes to judge the

inhabited earth in righteousness." This is his own

Son who, on earth, bore the name of Jesus. (John

5:22, 27) Why him? Because humankind is un-

deniably in bondage, in enslavement to imper-

fection, sin and death, and this one proved to be

the long-awaited Messiah or Christ through whom

the Most High purposes to bring freedom from

that enslavement.-Isaiah 53 : 7-12.

'Here is what the Bible account shows: In

the spring of 33 C.E., Jesus died on an executional

stake. His death provided the needed sacrifice to

atone for our sins. (1 Peter 2:24; 1John 2:2)

Forty days after being raised from the dead, he

ascended to the heavens, there to present the

value of his sacrifice to the Father. From then on,

mankind everywhere needed to learn that freedom

from sin and death could be gained only by ac-

cepting Jesus as God's appointed Savior. "There

is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not

another name under heaven that has been given

among men by which we must get saved." (Acts

4:12) Hence, the desirable course of life is that

which gains for us an approved standing with

God as followers of his Son, yes, as genuine

Christians.

4. Row has the Creator encouraged humans to make a wise

ohoice res~ectinatheir life?

7. How is Je.m CMst fnvolved in e person's choosing the

best way of Me?

&-- ma-- .

B, mat choik have been set befov mankind?

us to adopt it. Rather, he warmly appeals to peo-

ple of all races to make a wise choice.

*Centuries ago, he began using devoted, un-

selfish men and women to make this appeal. His

own example in generously providing all that is

needed for life adds force to his entreaty. God

is truly interested in us-& of us--and is ready

to help us. This was made clear in these inspired

words of the apostle Paul directed to people in

ancient Athens :

"The God that made the world and all the things

in it, being, as this One is, Lord of heaven and

earth, does not dwell in handmade temples, neither

is he attended to by human hands as if he needed

anything, because he himself gives to all persons

life and breath and all things. And he made out

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