Think of What Money Will not Do!
If ever there was a time when we needed to think of what we can have without money, it is now. We think so much about money. We talk so much about money. We say we can do nothing without money. That is not so. We can be saints without money; we can have peace of conscience, peace with God, joy in God, we can have heaven without money! But, you say, we can not do good without money. That, too, is not so. We have become so thoroughly fascinated with money that we can not see anything but money, and what money can do. Begin to think on another line. Think of what money will not do, what it can not do. It might be well, for some of us who are orthodox in our faith (and alas! that means, in so many cases, in our opinions) to think that we were not redeemed with money. You were not redeemed with silver and gold. There is something more precious than gold, and I fear we are doing harm to those who have much money by giving it an undue importance. If we need for Christ’s cause the money that can so easily be spared, why not go to the One who says the silver and gold are his, and ask the Spirit to influence others to soften their hearts toward the cause that needs assistance, and then, perhaps, merely a few words calling their attention to this or that will bring just what is needed.—Selected.