Immunity

January 1, 1970

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There is a characteristic of humankind which causes many of us to imagine that we are immune to those things which affect other men. One of the best evidences of this is the need that someone found a long time ago for adding to signs that say “Keep Out” the words “This Means You” – in spite of which there are still those whom it never occurred that it really means them. We find those who suppose themselves to be immune to obedience lo law, and to the penalties that come form breaking law – those who suppose they can live in a world where there is sorrow and sickness and somehow escape being affected by sorrow and sickness. The inward awareness that a man may have of his own personal importance, may, if not rightly read, lead him to suppose that he is untouchable in some ways — that the rules regulations, the restraint and responsibilities which affect the lives of others should not apply to him. Until life really begins to handle us in earnest, may of us are not aware that “This Means You” means all of us. In spite of the buffetings of the years, in spite of sorrow, regret, disappointment, and all the other processes of the refiner’s fire, there are some who yet cannot understand that all the laws of life and all the commandments of God pertain to all of us. And if, in that hereafter which awaits us all, some of us find certain restrictions imposed, certain “Keep Out” signs, then at last it may come to our consciousness that the Lord God really meant us when he laid down the rules and said to each and all of us: “This Means You,” which indeed it really does.

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