Day 5: True and Lasting
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine (Proverbs 3:9 -10).
The Parable of the Rich Fool
Then [Jesus] said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” And He told them this parable:
“The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.
And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
My soul in trouble roamed
Upon a weary plain,
And ever restless, longed
A perfect bliss to gain.
Refrain:
I have found it, Lord, in Thee
An everlasting store
Of comfort, joy, and bliss to me:
How can I wish for more?
Oppressed with guilt and woe,
With fears of hell o’ercast,
My soul no comfort knew
Until I came to Christ.
I bore within my breast
A deep and painful void,
I wanted inward rest,
And peace that would abide.
My foolish soul had thought
To fill itself with mold
From earthly mines, yet bought
No true and lasting gold.
All in this world is dross;
Its pleasures soon decay;
Its honors prove a snare;
Its treasures fly away.
~ Daniel S. Warner ~ pub.1893
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