March 27, 2006

[Rev. Doc]

What's In Your Storehouse?

"This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
Luke 12:21

John G. Wendel and his sisters were some of the most miserly people of all time. Although they had received a huge inheritance from their parents, they spent very little of it and did all they could to keep their wealth for themselves.

John was able to influence five of his six sisters never to marry, and they lived in the same house in New York City for 50 years. When the last sister died in 1931, her estate was valued at more than $100 million. Her only dress was one that she had made herself, and she had worn it for 25 years.

The Wendels had such a compulsion to hold on to their possessions that they lived like paupers. Even worse, they were like the kind of person Jesus referred to.

Prayer: Ask God to help you focus on His riches, not yours.

"If thou are rich, thou art poor, for like an *** whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee."
~William Shakespeare