In teaching us how to handle our
money, my mother said, again and again, IT'S FUN TO BE FRUGAL. And, most of the time I'd agree
obligingly. Really, she was right and consistantly lived it out. But, we can profitably ask (no pun intended), when may thrift become miserliness? A penney pincher may simply just not be trusting the Lord and instead hoards money making it his or her god. You can block out the sun if your hold a penny close enough to your eye. But God challenges us oppositely. Ponder this:
"There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want. The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered" Prov 11:24,25.
Is it not true: We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give? Andrew Murray remarked, "We ask how much a man gives; Christ asks how much he keeps. Remember the widow and her two mites (little pennies)?
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