“你要以财物和一切初熟的土产尊荣耶和华。这样，你的仓房必充满有余；你的酒醡有新酒盈溢”（箴3:9, 10）。{FH.73.1}
上帝完全能实现祂的应许。地上一切美好的事物都出自祂的手。主的资源是无限的，都被祂用来实现祂的旨意。忠心的管家既聪明地利用上帝交托给他们的货财去推进真理并造福受苦的人，就必因此得赏。当他们分给别人时，上帝就会倾福于他们。祂正借着受托祂资财的管家们在地上推进祂的圣工。有些人虽极欲发财，却会因拥有钱财而灭亡。上帝借着把资财借给人而对每一个人进行考验。各人都有可能滥用这恩赐或用它来荣耀上帝。……他们受到了测试和验证，发现他们在使用别人的钱财上不忠心，竟把那钱财当成了是自己的。上帝不会把永恒的财富委托给这样的人。{FH.73.2}
凡明智无私地处置主的财物，使自己与受苦的人利益与共的人，会得到提升，因为他们在上帝自己的慈善制度中尽了应尽的本分。……{FH.73.3}
所赐给我们地上一切美好的事物，都是上帝之爱的表示。祂使人成为祂的管家，赐给他们影响力和钱财，用来完成祂在地上的工作。我们的天父打算使有限的人与祂自己联络起来，作救灵的工具。……{FH.73.4}
凡行在真理之光中的人，必向周围的人发出亮光。他们是基督的活见证。他们必不象世人住在道德的黑暗中，爱自己和世界上的事，追求地上的财富。……{FH.73.5}
上帝使我们成了看守自己弟兄的，要我们为这个重大的托付交账。上帝使我们与祂自己联合，祂的计划是要我们与祂和谐同工。祂已制定了慈善的制度，使我们这些照着祂的形像所造的人可以象祂一样有舍己的品格。祂无限的本性乃是爱。——《评论与通讯》，1878年10月31日。{FH.73.6}
God Uses Us to Help Others, March 2
Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.?Proverbs 3:9, 10.?{FH 73.1}[1]
God is abundantly able to fulfill His promises. Every earthly good comes from His hand. The resources of the Lord are infinite, and He employs them all in accomplishing His purposes. Faithful stewards, who wisely use the goods which God has entrusted to them to advance the truth and bless suffering humanity, will be rewarded for so doing. God will pour into their hands while they dispense to others. He is advancing His cause in the earth through stewards entrusted with His capital. Some there are who, notwithstanding they greatly desire wealth, would be ruined by its possession. God has tested individuals by lending them talents of means. It was in their power to abuse the gift or use it to the glory of God.... They have been tested and proved and found unfaithful in using that which was another’s as though it was their own. God will not entrust such with the eternal riches.?{FH 73.2}[2]
Those who make a judicious and unselfish disposition of the Lord’s goods, thus identifying their interest with that of suffering humanity, will be advanced, for they act the part which God designed they should in His own system of beneficence....?{FH 73.3}[3]
Every good thing upon the earth was given to us as an expression of the love of God. He makes people His stewards and gives them talents of influence and means to use for the accomplishment of His work in the earth. Our heavenly Father proposes to connect finite human beings with Himself. As laborers they may be His instruments in the salvation of souls....?{FH 73.4}[4]
Those who walk in the light of truth will emit light to those around them. They are living witnesses for Christ. They will not be like the world, living in moral darkness, loving themselves and the things of the world, and seeking for earthly treasures....?{FH 73.5}[5]
God has made us our brother’s keeper and will hold us responsible for this great trust. God has taken us into union with Himself, and He has planned that we shall work in harmony with Him. He has provided the system of beneficence, that we whom He has made in His image may be self-denying in character, like Him whose infinite nature is love.—The Review and Herald, October 31, 1878.?{FH 73.6}[6]
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