Some years ago a couple of stock buyers in the South rode up to the home of an old colored maid and noticed a fine milk cow grazing in the yard. One of them said,
“Uncle, we would, like to buy this cow. Is she yours?”
“No, sah, boss, dat ain’t my cow. It’s de bawd’s cow, I’m jet a-keepin’ her fer Him,” replied the old Negro.
That old man had grasped the great principle of stewardship. We really do not own anything, Whatever we seem to possess is just loaned to us for a little while, for:
Let us each one ask ourselves how we are using what the Lord has entrusted to us. Are we laying up for ourselves treasures above or down here?
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart he also,” Matt. 6:19-2119Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:19‑21).
ML 02/18/1940