LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

ecome a garden, the mines of the mountains to pour their untold
wealth at the feet of His children--if He did not design all these to be
items of wealth for them, tokens of His love and helpfulness?
"For it is He who gives you power to get wealth." But having gotten it,
having taken advantage of God-given opportunities, exercised Godgiven
strength, God-allotted time, and God-endowed skill and
discernment--woe to that soul that says: "I have much goods laid up for
many years; behold, all the good things I have made, I have produced, I
have worked for, and I have earned. Soul, take your ease--eat, drink and
be merry!" Hear God's comment on such Self-Conceit, such folly: "You
fool! this night your soul shall be required of you! Then whose shall
those things be which you have provided?"
Was he the same man--or only a brother--who fared sumptuously
every day, clothed in purple and fine linen, who permitted a beggar to
be left at his gate day after day, and still be a beggar? "And in Hell he
lifted up his eyes, being in torment!" and heard that most tantalizing
reminder of misused wealth: "Son, remember that you, in your lifetime,
received your good things," sufficient, but still such limited satisfaction,
in exchange for infinite wealth in the bosom, in the home and heart of
father Abraham--"the figure of the Father Almighty."
God gives you power to get wealth, not alone for self, or for the sake of
getting--but for His glory, for your comfort, and the comfort of your
fellow-man. In the getting, remember your relationship to your
Heavenly Father and to your Heavenly Father's other children around
you.
But is it possible for us all to get wealth, become possessors of sufficient
of material resources as to be independent? Yes, and No.
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