Being and Doing – 13 July – Stewardship

HONOUR the Lord with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase.

Proverbs. iii. 9

WEALTH is honourable, and may be used most blessedly when men regard themselves as being what indeed they are stewards of it, and not the owners;  when they know how to acquire without avarice, and how to expend without grudging;  but the wealth of the callous, the selfish, the greedy, the luxurious their gold and silver is rusted, and its rust shall be a witness against them, and shall eat their flesh as it were fire…   If only every man and woman among you recognised the plain truth that you can no longer shift on to others’ shoulders the sacred responsibilities which God, and no other, lays individually upon you;  if, in other words, Christians could only be aroused to be Christians, to feel as Christians, to live as Christians, to labour as Christians, we should soon sweep away the subterranean horrors of this deep, dark, under-world of woe that underlies life’s shining surface- dim, populous dens of multitudinous toil unheeded by the heedless.

Archdeacon FARRAR

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These quotes are from ‘Being and Doing’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1908 for members of the Being and Doing Guild whose object is to do all they can for the relief of suffering and misery.

Most of the writers are 19th Century Christians from Britain and Europe who were committed to living their faith through deeds as well as words – Being AND Doing.

For many years these words have kept me company and encouraged me on the journey of faith.  I hope they will encourage others also.