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Many sincere persons would like to
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the enjsymmt
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CONTENTS
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1
Making the Right Choice
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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
Copyright, 1979
by
WATCH TOWER
BIBLE AND
TRACT
,SOCIETY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
of Exemplary Conduct
.............
9T
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8
Help for Bearing Up Under Suffering
112
........
9 Men Who Can Aid You to
Succeed
140
10
Safeguard Your Chistian Hope
..........
148
Publishers
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WATCHTOWER
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OF
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of the Promise
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STUDENTS
ABSOCUTION
Brooklyn,
New
York, U.S.A.
F'irdlt
Edition
2,000,000 Copies
Made in the United States of Amerlca
NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, Bible quotations
In
thls
book are from the modern-language
New
World
Tmnskztion of
the Ebly 8oriptu~es,
revised edition of
1Sn.
of
kite
and
then to pursue it.
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Publishers
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Aliins and Temporary Residents
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Live
in
Expectation of the Fulfillment
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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?
6
Makihg the Right Choice
A
LIFE with true meaning-how satisfying
6
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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