the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46. Therefore lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven (not on earth:) for where your treasure is, there will your heart he also. Matthew 6:20-21.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Such a dreadful description the scripture gives of no other vice. Who considers this enough? These roots lie often deeply concealed: if we do not search them out to the bottom, but spare and nourish them in the least, they will stick fast in our hearts; and before the disposition of a covetous man is truly changed to be benevolent and charitable, he cannot have a sure mark of his real conversion, and of Christ’s being the sublime good and treasure of his heart. May the Lord refine and put us all in the right way!
Why doth the man of riches grow
To insolence and pride?
To see his wealth and honours flow
With every rising tide?
Why doth he treat the poor with scorn,
Made of the self-same clay,
And boast as though his flesh were born
Of better dust than they!
Not all his treasures can procure
His soul a short reprieve,
Redeem from death one guilty hour,
Or make his brother live.
The love of gold be banished hence,
That vile idolatry,
And every member, every sense
In sweet subjection lie.
