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Immediate Satisfaction Versus Lasting Results

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 5, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 18

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Immediate Satisfaction Versus Lasting Results

—It makes all the difference between great and small minds, whether they work for immediate satisfaction or for lasting results. The insect mind works for the current moment, oblivious of the future; the wise man plans for the distant as well as for to-day. Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, for he had respect to the recompense of reward.