“The liberal soul
shall be made fat.”
Proverbs 11:25
GAINING BY GIVING
If I
desire to flourish in soul, I must not hoard up my
stores, but must distribute to the poor. To be close and
niggardly is the world’s way to prosperity, but it is
not God’s way, for He saith, “There is that scattereth,
and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more
than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.”
Faith’s way of gaining is giving. I must try this again
and again; and I may expect that as much of prosperity
as will be good for me will come to me as a gracious
reward for a liberal course of action. Of course, I may
not be sure of growing rich. I shall be fat, but not too
fat.
Too great riches might make me as unwieldy as corpulent
persons usually are, and cause me the dyspepsia of
worldliness, and perhaps bring on a fatty degeneration
of the heart. No, if I am fat enough to be healthy, I
may well be satisfied; and if the Lord grants me a
competence, I may be thoroughly content.
But there is a mental and spiritual fatness which I
would greatly covet, and these come as the result of
generous thoughts toward my God, His church, and my
fellow-men. Let me not stint, lest I starve my heart.
Let me be bountiful, and liberal; for so shall I be like
my Lord. He gave Himself for me: shall I grudge Him
anything?
"Lord Dictated Them"
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