A.W. Tozer: The Transmutation of Wealth

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“It is one of the glories of the Christian religion that faith and love can transmute lower values into higher values. Earthly possessions can be turned into heavenly treasures.

It is like this. A twenty-dollar bill, useless in itself, can be transmuted into milk and eggs and fruit to feed hungry children. Physical and mental powers valuable in themselves, can be transmuted into still higher values, such as home and an education for a growing family. Human speech, a very gift from God to mankind, can become consolation for the bereaved or hope for the disconsolate, and it can rise higher and break into prayer and praise of the Most High God.

As base a thing as money often is, it yet can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor; it can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values.

Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. Hosanna to God in the highest.”

A.W. Tozer in “The Transmutation of Wealth” in The Alliance Witness (October 8, 1958).