God Governs Barns: Honoring the Lord with Substance
A WEALTHY capitalist, who had made most of his own fortune, and, what was harder, taken care of it, gives the following as the secret of his success: “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of thine increase; so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses burst forth with new wine.” The philosophy of the matter is simply this, God governs barns. We are willing to allow that he governs nations, and guides congresses, and directs battle fields. But Solomon knew, moreover, that he presides over wheat fields. We know that God is to be worshiped in church with prayers and psalms; but Solomon will have it that he is to be praised also with threshing implements and grain wagons.