And the hand of providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly, that you have obtained many riches; and because some of you have obtained more abundantly than that of your brethren ye are lifted up in the pride of your hearts, and wear stiff necks and high heads because of the costliness of your apparel, and persecute your brethren because ye suppose that ye are better than they.
Riches in and of themselves are not evil, but what they can do the soul is dangerous. Riches feed the pride of the natural man. When we begin to compare and keep score, we lose the perspective of charity. The Lord blesses us so we can be generous, but our pride overrules our desires for charity, and we become just the opposite of what we had set out to do. The truly rich of the world have learned that to be truly prosperous, we must give it away.
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