The things with which men concern themselves constitute their lives and predominantly influence their characters.
Are we greatly concerned with the little things of daily experience, the pleasures and pains of the senses, the easy flow and sometimes disturbing ebb of personal relations? Do our own selfish desires, ambitions, and vanities, our local failures or successes, mainly concern us? Then our lives will remain circumscribed within these tyrant barriers; we shall continue to be eased or distraught by the chance good or ill fortune of a world to which spiritual direction and purpose are unknown.
"I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me," said Jesus. This was his concern, and he fulfilled it to the end. We see him throughout his career, which revealed the all-power and availability of divine law in human affairs, wholly unconcerned with the caprice of popularity or hatred; with the homage of the rich, the condemnation of the mighty; unconcerned with his own comfort, safety, and glory. But we do see him deeply concerned with the needs of mankind, to whom he brought the message of salvation, the understanding of man's relationship to God.
