I tell you, use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. In this way, your generosity stores up a reward for you in heaven.
British General Charles G. Gordon, who was a renowned and faithful servant of God, received a distinguished gold medal for his military service in China. In an act worth mimicking, he had the gold medallion melted down and sold off, just so that he could buy bread for the poor during a long famine. He entered the following into his journal: "The only thing I had in this world that I valued, I have now given to the Lord Jesus." The world would certainly be very different if there were a few more people like General Gordon. He lived out the lesson taught to us from Matthew 6:20 that most people have difficulty applying, "Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves."
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