“You are my portion, O Lord” (Psalms 119:57)

Look at your possessions, oh, saint, and compare what you have with your neighbors. Some have their wealth in their land; they’re made rich by their harvests which produce a good income; but what are harvests compared with your God, who is the God of harvests? What are full barns compared with Him, who is the Great Provider, who feeds you with bread from Heaven? 

 Some have their wealth in the city; their riches abound, and it flows to them in constant streams, until they become a reservoir of money; but what is money compared with your God? You couldn’t live on it; your spiritual life couldn’t be sustained by it. If you put money on a troubled conscience, could it assuage your guilt? Apply it to a troubled heart, and see if it prevents a single groan. But you have God, and in Him you have more than land or money could ever buy. 

 Some have their wealth in what most men love - applause and fame; but ask yourself, isn’t your God more to you than that? What if the world idolized your image and applauded your every word, would this prepare you for Judgment Day? “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36-37). 

 But when God is your wealth, you have more than the whole world could provide. In Him, every want is met, whether in life or in death. With God, you’re rich in every way that matters: He not only supplies your needs, but comforts your heart, assuages your guilt, and guides your steps all the way to Heaven. The worldly-wise man says, "I have enough", but the heavenly-wise saint agrees with Apostle Peter: “His divine power has given to me all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him” (2 Peter 1:3).