WEALTH;
EARTHLY THINGS

The Bible has a great deal to say about wealth. Our Lord dealt with the matter forthrightly, as did also Paul and others of the New Testament writers. What they said is on record and is deserving of a more careful study than most Christians give it.…

Knowing the tendency of the human heart to become unduly attached to earthly goods, Christ warned against it. The “things” which the Father gives are to be understood as provisional merely and must never be considered our real treasure. The heart always returns to its real treasure, and if a man holds corn to be a real form of wealth his heart will be where his corn is. Many a man has his heart locked up in a bank vault, and many a woman has her heart in her jewel box or stored at the furrier’s. It is a great moral tragedy when anything as wonderful as the human heart comes to rest on the earth and fails to rise to its own proper place in God and in heaven.

Matthew 6:25–34; Colossians 3:1–4; 1 Timothy 6:17–19

Born After Midnight, 104, 106.