Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
Picture
two banks: The first is well-maintained: gold-trimmed brick, pristine
lawn, spotless glass windows while the second one down the road is
large and filthy: broken windows, mud at the entrance, replete with
shady-looking characters scurrying ashamedly nearby. The first and
smaller institution bears a sign that reads: “ALWAYS INSURED” and
the second's reads: “SOON TO CLOSE.” The choice of which to trust
seems obvious, doesn't it? Yet we and everyone we know choose the
second over and over again, even though our investments fall through
regularly. There is God's Bank and The World's Bank.
Isn't
that Satan's purpose on the earth? To deceive us into treating
temporary things as eternal and eternal things as temporary?
“For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”
Why do
we get frustrated in ways that don't always make sense to us? Because
we put our hope (and hearts) into things that don't always make
sense, that aren't stable. God is the only stability, and we live in
a world of breaking sand.
“You
cannot serve God and money”
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