Covetousness and Liberality – Charles Spurgeon

T H E R E i s n o t h i n g i n t h i s w o r l d b u t l i v e s b y giving, e x c e p t a c o v e t o u s man, a n d s u c h a man i s a p i e c e o f g r i t in t h e m a c hin e r y; he is o u t o f gea r wit h the u niver se. Man is a w heel running in the o p p o site direction to the wheels of God’s g reat engine. He is a jib bing horse in the team . He is one that wil l not do what al l the forces of the world beside are doing. He is a monster; he is not fit for this worl d at all. He has not realized the motion of the spheres. He keeps not step with the march of the ages. He is out of date; he is out of place; he is out of God’s order altogether. B ut the cheerful giver is marching to the music of the spheres. He is in order with God’s great natural laws, and God therefore loves him, since he sees his own work in him.