Give Now by Sunday School Times

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1880

Give Now

By Sunday School Times

GIVE NOW.—How easy it is to be open-handed when it involves no self-denial. When people wish they had wealth in order to do good with it, they commonly mean that they would like to have so much money that they could give freely without feeling it. But what generosity is there in that? The true measure of our devotion to any object is what we are ready to give up for it. Until we make sacrifice for a cause, we furnish no proof that that cause has our heart. We do not even know whether or not we really love a friend, unless we are called on to choose between his welfare and something that we are loath to surrender. For what and to what extent have you really denied yourself to give help or pleasure to others, or to advance your Master's cause, within the past week or month? That is a question to test your generosity and your love. No loving or giving is worth speaking of that does not involve a readiness for sacrifice and self-denial.—Sunday School Times.