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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

If you possess more of this world’s goods than you really need, the Lord loves you so much that He warns you to dispossess yourself of excess before it’s too late. “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days” (James 5:1-3).

 

No one in heaven will condemn us; condemnation will be self-evident in the “corrosion” of our “gold and silver” that we will at last abhor. This is a pitiful trap to fall into—the self-deception of a fancy house or luxurious car, or the smug content that our net worth can afford anything we desire. I had a personal visit once with the king of Uganda when it was still a British Protectorate. We met in the private home of one of his personal friends. He himself drove his Rolls-Royce to the appointment. I remember that during the visit he volunteered to express appreciation for my gospel-ministry for the Baganda, saying that “our problem is materialism.” Later he had to flee the luxury of his palace for refuge in England. Yes, he would have been happier living in secure peace in a mud house with only a bicycle. He was a good man caught up in the “misery” of wealth and power, as the apostle says.

 

Yesterday’s Sacramento Bee has a pathetic picture of the face of Jacques Chirac under the headline, “France fearful about future.” The camera couldn’t help but capture reality: a good man whose heart is “failing [him] from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven will be shaken,” says Jesus (Luke 21:26). For you and me, says Paul, “having food and clothing, with these we shall be content,” “for we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” (1 Tim. 6:8, 7). And let’s be ready to walk away and leave everything—“content” to walk arm in arm with Jesus.

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