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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

JANUARY The Ninth THE PERILS OF POSSESSIONS

GENESIS xiii.1-9.

There is nothing more divisive than wealth. As families grow rich their members frequently become alienated. It is rarely, indeed, that love increases with the increase of riches. Luxurious possessions appear to be a forcing-bed in which the seeds of sleeping vices waken into strength. For one thing, selfishness is often quickened with success. Plenty, as well as penury, can |freeze the genial currents of the soul.| And with selfishness comes a whole brood of mean and petty dispositions. Envy comes with it, and jealousy, and a morbid sensitiveness which readily leaps into strife.

So do our possessions multiply our temptations. So does the bright day |bring forth the adder.| So do we need extra defences when |fortune smiles upon us.| But our God can make us proof against |the fiery darts| of success. Abram remained unscathed in |the garish day.| The Lord delivered him from |the destruction that wasteth at noonday.| His wealth increased, but it was not allowed to force itself between his soul and God. In the midst of all his prosperity, he dwelt in |the secret place of the Most High,| and he abode in |the shadow of the Almighty.|

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