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 these words in Chinese: "If you are planting for ten years, plant trees; if you are planting for a hundred years, plant men." Men are God's great interest and want.

What an opportunity this opens for every man of us! We have thought of our lives as little, insignificant, trivial, of no consequence. There is One walking in the midst of us Who was speaking to Ezekiel. "I am hunting for a man," He is saying, "I am hunting for a man," and it is open to every one of us to rise up and say, "Lord, I am that man you are hunting for. Seek no further. Here am I. Have me for your man." Is that the answer that He is getting from us?