OUR DAILY BREAD             Wed., February 8, 1995
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READ:  Luke 16:1-15

                     BIG MONEY

    "Make friends for yourselves by unrighteous
       mammon, that... they may receive you
            into an everlasting home."

                                -- Luke 16:9

Some athletes and entertainers receive astronomical
salaries.  I can understand why they would take all
they can get, but I wonder about a culture that
spends so much to be entertained when countless
people in the world are homeless and hungry.

Our attitude toward money and how we use it is a
barometer of our spiritual state.  It reveals whether
we are foolishly thinking only of the present or
wisely looking to eternity.

Jesus told a story about a money manager who knew
he would soon be fired because he had wasted his
employer's funds.  So he went to the debtors and
issued a "paid in full" receipt for a partial
payment.  This put him in their good graces so
that when he lost his job he could go to them
for help and not have to beg.  No doubt his
employer was unhappy about not receiving all that
was owed him, but he commended the man for his
shrewdness.

That story illustrates the wisdom of spending
money with eternity in view.  We can use our
money now to help spread the gospel, and the
people who receive Christ will be our friends
forever and will greet us when we enter heaven.

Money can't buy happiness or eternal life.  But
when invested in Christ's cause, it pays eternal
dividends.

                                -- Herber Vander Lugt

        Some think that they have everything
            When riches come their way,
        But that they're poor will be revealed
             On God's accounting day.

                                -- Henry G. Bosch

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             THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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           The wise use of money
           pays eternal dividends.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:  Numbers 11-14

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