Use Or Lose!!

"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given..... but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even he hath: matt 13:12.

What we will not use, we thereby lose. That is a fundamental principle of all life. "The real joy of life" says our great Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru,"is to work for a great purpose, to understand it and put all the strength and energy of an integrated personality into it. Therein you will experience the full joy of achievement."

How invariably the above law works in the natural realm! We cover one of our eyes for six months, and it is seriously weakened. We keep a fractured arm in a sling for eight weeks, and it becomes thinner, weaker and slower. Ascetic men, who have held an arm upright for weeks, months, years until it has become atrophied and gangrenous simply through disuse. There is a white wish in certain American waters which for centuries now has lived nearly a thousand feet below the surface, and although it is found to have eye-organs it is quite blind.

The same law operates even in the mechanical world, as any motorist or mechanist knows. Every where this principle is stamped upon life and things "use or lose".

To bury our talent is not preservation, but mortification. The above law is applicable to spiritual realm also. Man has dual nature, physical and spiritual. To sustain his body, man has to consume 128 cubic feet oxygen for a day. If he does not use oxygen he will lose his phyiscal life. For eternal life man has to lay hold on Jesus Christ. Laying hold is metaphor of faith. We are to "lay hold" upon Jesus Christ as a man lays hold on suddenly discovered treasure; aor as man dying of thrist lays hold upon the flask of water which his rescuers bring; or as the drowning man lays hold upon the life-line; or as the ivy lays hold upon the rocks or timbers.

We are to "lay hold" upon Him by laying hold of His promises in the Gospel; "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" if you miss it you will lose it. To lay hold on eternal life is in reality laying hold on Christ Himself, for He is eternal life. That is why it is written "He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the son of God hath not the life".