The stingy uncle
"A little girl told this story about her uncle and aunt. She said, "My uncle was the stingiest man I have ever known.
All his life, every time he got paid he took $20 out of his paycheck and put it under his mattress. Then he got sick and was about to die.
As he was dying, he said to his wife, "I want you to promise me one thing."
"Promise what?" she asked. The uncle said "I want you to promise me that when I’m dead you’ll take my money from under the mattress and put it in my casket so that I can take it all with me."
The girl’s letter went on with the story. "He died and his wife kept her promise. She went in and got all that money the day he died and went to the bank and deposited it, and wrote out a check and put it in his casket."
I am reminded of Ecclesiastes 5:15 "As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came, and he shall take nothing for his labor which he may carry away in his hand"
Some quotes on giving....
Billy Graham
"If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every area of his life"
Selwyn Hughes
"Remember this - you can't serve God and money but you can serve God with money"
John Wesley
"I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity"
Jim Elliot
"He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"
Corrie Ten Boom
"I have held many things in my hand and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands that I still possess"
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