Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 18 (Our Lord's teaching about money).
My summary
Today Pierson teaches us about money.
We learn about the:
(i) principle of stewardship;
(ii) principle of investment;
(iii) subordination of money;
(iv) law of recompense;
(v) law of superior blessedness;
(vi) law of computation by comparison;
(vii) unselfishness in giving;
(viii) law of sanctified giving;
(ix) law of transmutation.
What grabbed me
I found Pierson's comments about stewardship helpful: 'The basis of Christ's teaching about money is the fundamental conception of stewardship. (Luke 12:42; 16:1-8.) Not only money, but every gift of God, is received in trust for His use. Man is not an owner, but a trustee, managing another's goods and estates, God being the one original and inalienable Owner of all. The two things required of stewards are that they be "faithful and wise," that they study to employ God's gifts with fidelity and sagacity fidelity so that God's entrustments be not perverted to self-indulgence; sagacity, so that they be converted into as large gains as possible.'
Our money is never actually ours.
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 19 (The Scriptures).
Now it's your turn
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