Some years ago a newspaper offered a prize for the best definition of money. Out of the hundreds who competed, the winner gained the prize by the following answer: “Money is a universal provider for everything but happiness; and it is a passport to everywhere but heaven.”
The definition is well worth considering. Its fullness and completeness as an answer proclaims the poverty of that which all the world worships—money.
Without happiness in this world, or heaven in the next, what do people have? The husk without the fruit, the shell without the kernel, the tinsel without the reality! And when all ends, and heaven is not to be our dwelling place forever, the very comforts of this life will mock us in hell as they really mocked us on earth.
The golden key is well-nigh omnipotent on earth; but it has no power with Him who says: “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine." Hag. 2:88The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. (Haggai 2:8).
“He, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isa. 55:11Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1).