This isn’t just something to write poetry about, or sing a song about, although it is worthy of the grandest poem and the most beautiful song ever written, friends. This is the grandest theme of the ages. We will be entering into it a million, million years from now, more and more fully. This is what makes life worth living. This is what makes life too precious to fritter away or to throw away.

Oh, think of it! The God that made these mountains and hung the stars in space wants me for His friend. He wants me for fellowship with Him. He wants me with Him in eternity. He wants me now. 

Do you know what friends like to do? They like to talk. Oh, I don’t mean just chatter. They like to commune. They like to share. Sometimes real close friends can just sit together for awhile without saying a word, but there is communication. They are sharing. This is the way God wants to be with you. You need it. But, He needs it.

He needs it? Yes, He needs it. With you? Exactly. And no matter how much He gets from others, there is a hunger in His heart for you. There is a thirst in His soul for your love, your sympathy, your understanding. Oh, my friends, if a man once understands this, nothing else matters. There is only one thing that matters: How can I please the One that needs me that way? How can I fill that need? How can I please Him?

You see, this lifts us clear above the necessity of trying to keep up with others in anything. We don’t have to look like somebody else, or sing like somebody else, or act like somebody else, or pray like somebody else, or preach like somebody else, or do anything like somebody else. Why? Dear friends, there is only one like you. And that place in God’s heart that you were made to fill, will you fill it?

Now, it is true sometimes we have gotten out of shape. We need to be trued up. We need to be pruned or planed or polished, something, in order that we may fit. But I want to tell you something: God never makes a single change in your life, if you let Him run your life, except what brings you back to your true self. May I repeat that? God never makes a change in your life in any point, except to bring you back to your true self.

May I illustrate? There was a gentleman who weighed 260 pounds who came to a sanitarium for healing. He had some trouble in his chest, heart, and lungs. It made him puff to walk up just a little hill. Well, that is quite a load to carry, 260 pounds. Well, the doctor put him on a health conditioning program. And after a number of weeks of walking out on the trails with some nature guides and treatments and nutrias diet and lectures and all the rest, he went home feeling so much better. He had decided that he wouldn’t go home until he got under 200 pounds. So he got under 200, and he went home to keep on the program to come down in weight.

My point is this. Some changes were made in his profile, but they were not changes made to make him like somebody else. They were just changes made to help bring him to the pattern that he was made for and made by. Do you see what I mean? Now, it is true he will look more like some other people when he gets to normal, but don’t miss the point. That is not the reason for it. It is to get him back to his proper pattern for him. He feels so much better already. Wouldn’t you feel better, 62 pounds gone? Wouldn’t you, if you were that heavy?

Some people, when they come, need to have some pounds added. Not so their friends will say, “Well, you look more like us now.” No, no. But so they get to be the pattern they were made by and made for. Do you see?

So with everything about you. You know, friends, we think differently about things. The work of the devil is to try to destroy individual identity. He is getting the whole world ready for the mark of the what? The beast. He is trying to make everybody think alike. And if he can’t make them think alike, he is going to put it in their hand and say, “You have to act alike, whether or not you think alike.”