Business Pressure

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Another way in which pressure comes in, and where we very quickly respond to it, is in our business vicissitudes. How quickly we cry out when the finger of God comes upon what we call our means of living — but which very often are not the means of our living, but rather the means of gratifying tastes and likings altogether beyond what God has indicated to us when He says, “Food, raiment, contentment.” How many has one seen whose careers have been shattered by the failure to see the simple principle, “Godliness with contentment is great gain.  .  .  .  And having food and raiment let us therewith be content” (1 Tim. 6:6,8). Therefore God has come in; in His mercy and goodness, He has shattered our business concerns — perhaps even shattered the very means of our gaining a livelihood. I know what I am talking about. I have been through it. I trust what I am saying to you now may be of some value to you younger ones.