The More He Gave, The More He Had

A man went to see the pastor of a downtown Church and told him a distressing story of poverty and misery in the neighborhood. “Not far from this Church,” the man said, “lives a poor widow who has four hungry children to feed. She’s sick in bed with no money for a doctor, she is six months behind in her rent payments and, now, this poor sick woman and her four hungry children are about to be evicted. I’m here because I’m trying to raise the rent money. Can you help?” “I certainly can,” the concerned pastor replied. “If you can give your time to this worthy cause, so can I. I’ll help you raise the money. By the way, who are you?” To which the main replied, “I’m the landlord!”

The story is reminiscent of a book published several years ago called, “Looking Out For Number One.” In it, the author argued strongly against generosity. For example, he said that if you “make…