Hi, Friend!
One of Aesop’s Fables, The Miser and His Gold, demonstrates that without God, the fear of not having enough is strong.
Once upon a time there was a Miser who buried his gold
near a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up
and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug
up the gold and left town with it. When the Miser next came to gloat
over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his
hair and raised such an outcry that all the neighbors came around him,
and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold.
“Did you ever take any of it out?” asked one of them.
“No,” said he, “I only came to look at it.”
“Then come again and look at the hole,” said a neighbor; “it will do you just as much good.”
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Matt
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