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Money.
blessing : as an exercise in* industry and activity,* in
care and economy : as a token of God's blessing
upon our work ^ : as an opportunity for showing that
we can possess and lay it out for God, without withholding
it or cleaving to it ; that by means of it we
can manifest our generosity to the poor and our
overflowing love for God's cause :^ as a means of
glorifying God by our beneficence, and of spreading
among men the gold of heavenly blessing * : as a
thing that, according to the assurance of Jesus, we
can exchange for a treasure in heaven.
And what is now the way to be freed from the danger
and to be led into the right blessing of money ?
Let God be Lord over your money. Receive all
your money with thanksgiving, as coming from God
in answer to the prayer :
" Give us this day our daily
bread."
Lay it all down before God as belonging to Him.
Say with the woman :
" I verily dedicate the silver
unto the Lord." ^
Let your dealing with your money be a part of
your spiritual life. Receive, and possess, and give
out your money as one who has been bought at a
high price, redeemed, not with silver and gold, but
with the precious blood.'
1 Prov. xiii. 4, xviii. 19.
' ProT. X. 4, »2.
' Isa. Ivii. 7, 8, 10, II ; 2 Cor. viii. 14, 15.
3 Cor. ix. 12, 13.
6 Matt. xix. 21 ;
Luke xii. 33.
•i Chron. xxix. 14.
7 I Tim. iv. 4, 5. » I^uke xix. 8.
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