October 9
October 9
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be My son.—Revelation 21:7.
AFTER the Chicago fire I met a man who said,
“Moody, I hear you lost everything in the Chicago fire.”
“Well,” I said, “you understood it wrong; I didn’t.”
He said, “How much have you left?”
“I can’t tell you; I have got a good deal more left than I lost.”
“You can’t tell how much you have?”
“No.”
“I didn’t know that you were ever that rich. What do you mean?”
“I mean just what I say. I got my old Bible out of the fire; that is about the only thing. One promise came to me that illuminated the city a great deal more than the fire did. ‘He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be My son.’ ”
You ask me how much I am worth. I don’t know. You may go and find out how much the Vanderbilts are worth, and the Astors, and Rothschilds, but you can’t find out how much a child of God is worth. Why? Because he is a joint-heir with Jesus Christ.
Why are you going around with your head down, talking about your poverty? The weakest, poorest child of God is richer than a Vanderbilt, because he has eternal riches. The stuff that burned up in Chicago was like the dust in the balance. Joint-heir with Jesus Christ! That is what the eighth of Romans teaches us.