October
26
Morning
“Ye
looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it
home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of
mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.”
-
Hag_1:9
Churlish
souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary
operations, and call such saving good economy; little do they dream
that they are thus impoverishing themselves. Their excuse is that
they must care for their own families, and they forget that to
neglect the house of God is the sure way to bring ruin upon their own
houses.
Our
God has a method in providence by which he can succeed our endeavours
beyond our expectation, or can defeat our plans to our confusion and
dismay; by a turn of his hand he can steer our vessel in a profitable
channel, or run it aground in poverty and bankruptcy. It is the
teaching of Scripture that the Lord enriches the liberal and leaves
the miserly to find out that withholding tendeth to poverty.
In
a very wide sphere of observation, I have noticed that the most
generous Christians of my acquaintance have been always the most
happy, and almost invariably the most prosperous. I have seen the
liberal giver rise to wealth of which he never dreamed; and I have as
often seen the mean, ungenerous churl descend to poverty by the very
parsimony by which he thought to rise.
Men
trust good stewards with larger and larger sums, and so it frequently
is with the Lord; he gives by cartloads to those who give by bushels.
Where wealth is not bestowed the Lord makes the little much by the
contentment which the sanctified heart feels in a portion of which
the tithe has been dedicated to the Lord. Selfishness looks first at
home, but godliness seeks first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, yet in the long run selfishness is loss, and godliness
is great gain.
It
needs faith to act towards our God with an open hand, but surely he
deserves it of us; and all that we can do is a very poor
acknowledgment of our amazing indebtedness to his goodness.
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