Measuring Our Love by Our Giving
It is an easy thing to sing, “All I have I give to Jesus, it belongs to Him,” but the singing is hollow mockery when we spend more in one year for chewing-gum or soda water than we give in five years to the evangelization of the heathen world. We often sing, “I love thy Church, O God;” and then pay more for the trimming of a hat or the decorations of a “social function” than we contribute to the Church in a twelve-month. We sing, “My Jesus, I love thee,” and drop a nickel in the collection-basket, reserving the fifty cents for the purchase of a ticket to the Monday matinée or lecture. What does Jesus think? “God so loved the world that He gave,” What? — The best He had. We can measure God’s love by His gift. Suppose He were to measure ours by the same standard! — Selected.