Heirs of God

In 1930 an author named Boyden Sparkes recounted the life of the greatest miser America has known. Hetty Green was her name. The book about her life was called The Woman Who Loved Money. In 1916 this heiress died in an attack of apoplexy arguing the merits of skim milk over whole milk (which cost more, of course!).

• She ate cold oatmeal to save the expense of heating it!
• Her son lost his leg to amputation through a minor injury, she vainly searched for a free medical clinic and delayed too long!
• In a day when one dollar was a full day's wage she left behind at her death enough money to pay the wages of America's workforce of all men for a week. 1/8 of a billion dollars in the middle of the depresssion of 1930. She was fabulously wealthy, yet lived in destitution as a pauper.

Sound crazy?  Well, look at our text, Eph. 1:11-12:

We as a church are heirs of God!

We need to focus on this vital truth list we live like Hetty Green -- live like paupers!

Already we have noted God's master plan.