We learn our trade among men so that we might be useful and provide for those we love.  We coach others as they also enter into service.  We encourage and exhort with all due wisdom and opportunity

Then the moment appears to become employed by another trade; eternity.

Are you busy studying and practicing your next trade?  Are you preparing to serve for eternity?  Will your life be filled with items and speech that will encourage another toward that ability?

Those who fear men will not speak of what is sure to come.  Their tongue will cower behind closed lips.  But those who learn to love God will find their tongue loosed.  Preparation will dominate their days.  A legacy will pile up concerning the nature of life in eternity.  There will be a testimony that says, “Come this way.”

Be fair to those you love.  Be honest and bold.  Do not restrain learning.  Our new employer will demand from us an accounting of our learning.  And it comes upon all to confess.

Do you know what I’m saying here?  Have you a heart to understand?

By His Grace.