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Invest to Glorify God, Not Self, June 26
Talk no more so very proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for
the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.
1
Samuel 2:3
, NKJV.
I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after
story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they
were erected to glorify the owners and builders.... Those to whom these buildings
belonged were not asking themselves: “How can we best glorify God?” The Lord
was not in their thoughts.
I thought: “Oh, that those who are thus investing their means could see their
course as God sees it! They are piling up magnificent buildings, but how foolish in
the sight of the Ruler of the universe is their planning and devising. They are not
studying with all the powers of heart and mind how they may glorify God. They
have lost sight of this, the first duty of human beings.”
As these lofty buildings went up, the owners rejoiced with ambitious pride
that they had money to use in gratifying self and provoking the envy of their
neighbors. Much of the money that they thus invested had been obtained through
exaction, through grinding down the poor. They forgot that in heaven an account of
every business transaction is kept; every unjust deal, every fraudulent act, is there
recorded. The time is coming when in their fraud and insolence men and women
will reach a point that the Lord will not permit them to pass, and they will learn
that there is a limit to the forbearance of Jehovah....
There are not many, even among educators and statesmen, who comprehend
the causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins
of government are not able to solve the problem of moral corruption, poverty,
pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business
operations on a more secure basis. If men and women would give more heed to the
teaching of God’s Word, they would find a solution of the problems that perplex
them.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:12, 13
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