HE WHO HOARDS WEALTH STARVES THE SOUL

Bible Verse: Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery. Ecclesiastes 5:13 (Net Bible)

Thomas Fuller said, “The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest”. That is the devil of greed and lack of kindness and charity. Some people hoard their money and forego even basic comforts for themselves and their families.

A story is told of such a miser who had accumulated millions of shillings. He looked forward to a year of pleasant living before he made up his mind how best to invest his money, when suddenly the Angel of Death appeared before him to take his life away. The man begged and pleaded and used a thousand arguments to be allowed to live a little longer, but the angel was obdurate.

"Give me three days of life and I shall give you half my fortune," the man pleaded.

The angel wouldn't hear of it and began to tug at him.

"Give me just one day, I beg of you, and you can have everything I accumulated through so much sweat and toil." The angel was adamant still.
He was able to wring just one little concession from the angel-a few moments in which to write down this note:

"Oh you, whoever you are that happen to find this note, if you have enough to live on, don't waste your life accumulating fortunes. Live! My millions could not buy me a single hour of life!"

What are you doing with the wealth God has given you? Let your money work as an adjunct of your faith: to help you enjoy the life God has given you and as an instrument of God’s grace to others.

“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.” Theodore Parker Read More