Living Like a Beggar
StoryHistorical Account★★★★Charles Spurgeon told a similar story. He said he was visiting an elderly woman in the almshouse. His attention was drawn to a framed document on the wall of her room, and he asked her about it. She said that years before, she had cared for an aged gentleman, and before he had died, he had written out a little note of appreciation to her followed by his signature.
He had shortly afterwards died. After much persuasion Spurgeon was allowed to borrow the paper.
When he took it to the bank, they exclaimed, “We’ve been wondering to whom the old gentleman left his money;’ She was a wealthy woman, but she had been living like a beggar. 1 1 Leslie B. Flynn, 19 Gifts of the Spirit (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1975), 203-204. 2 Clipped from my files.
3M. R. DeHaan, The Chemistry of the Blood (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1943), 13.
The point
Spurgeon tells of a woman who inherited a fortune but lived in poverty because she never cashed the check; likewise, many Christians ignore the spiritual riches they have in Christ.