……the thoughts and interests of the people of God, especially the young. In one scale were the thoughts and interests tending heavenward; in the other were the thoughts and interests tending to earth. And in this scale were thrown all the reading of storybooks, thoughts of dress, and…vanity, pride, etc….the angels of God, standing with scales, weighing the thoughts of His professed children,….The scale filled with thoughts of earth…quickly went down…rolled from the scale. The one with the thoughts and interests tending to heaven went quickly up as the other went down….the angel with the scales weighing the thoughts and interests of the people of God, said the angel: Can such enter heaven? NO, NO, NEVER. Testimonies for the Church vol. 1 p. 124-125 E.G.W.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love
the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of
God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:15-17
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Revelation 2:7
