Now, Americans are bottom line people, and we like to check how the Dow is doing, and what the GDP has been up to lately. And so here is the takeaway cash value to this particular point: In the long run, pragmatism doesn’t work. Focusing on the GDP alone is bad for the GDP. It does not profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul, and there is an additional sting when he then loses the world too. Whatever you worship in place of God is another thing you lose. Whatever you surrender gladly to Him is returned to you, pressed down, shaken, and running over.
