There is a wide difference between having poison and being poisoned. Do not let that mind which is the likeness of God cleave to mere earthly goods let it always be raised above them, not sunk in them. If you have them, keep your heart from attaching itself to them let it maintain a higher level, and amidst riches be as though you had none,-superior to them. And this, my child, is what your heart should be-open only to heaven, impenetrable to riches and earthly treasures. The halcyon builds its nest like a ball, and leaving but one little aperture in the upper part, launches it on the sea, so secure and impenetrable, that the waves carry it along without any water getting in, and it floats on the sea, superior, so to say, to the waves. He is poor in spirit whose heart is not filled with the love of riches, whose mind is not set upon them. By rich in spirit I mean him whose riches engross his mind, or whose mind is buried in his riches. “BLESSED are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God ” and if so, woe be to the rich in spirit, for theirs must be the bitterness of hell. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Correy Webb PART 3 – CHAPTER XIV.
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