Admonition 1: Thou Art Not Made for Thyself

Thou madest not thyself; therefore thou art not fashioned for thyself.
It is God who hath made thee; therefore thou art made for God.
The foolish man, puffed with pride and blinded by error, deemeth himself self-made;
and thus doth he fancy that he is made for none but himself.

It hath been wisely spoken, “It is not about thee,”
but rather about God, who is ever for thee.
Yea, God is truly for thee—if only thou wouldst set thy heart upon Him and His holy work.

Until thou dost apprehend this truth, and walk therein,
thou art ordained to wander in vain pursuit and fruitless toil.
For the Master proclaimeth: He who seeketh to save his own life shall lose it;
but he who loseth his life for My sake shall find it.

Keep thyself unto thyself, and in the end thy reward shall be naught
but thyself abandoned unto thy solitary company.
Loneliness is to dwell alone with thyself, to live for thyself,
and never to give thyself to another.

Our Savior warneth: “Except a grain of wheat fall to the ground and die unto itself,
it abideth alone.”
Verily, a life kept for itself alone is but a lonely life never truly lived.
Therefore live thou as one fashioned for God,
and God shall fashion thee into His saint.