The Rich Fool
Matthew 6:19-20 Don't save treasures for yourselves here on earth. Moths and rust will destroy them. And thieves can break into your house and steal them. Instead, save your treasures in heaven, where they cannot be destroyed by moths or rust and where thieves cannot break in and steal them.
Possessions are interesting things. On the one hand, some of them at least are necessary. On the other, they can end up ruining our lives.
We all love to have stuff. Years ago, I bought a car that cost me an absolute bomb. It was stunning, with a rich burgundy lustre on the outside, and the softest tan-coloured leather you’ve ever touched, on the inside. I still remember sitting in the driver’s seat when I took delivery of it all those years ago, just drinking it all in … the smell of the leather was intoxicating.
A few years later, I was overseas on a work trip and I’d left the car in the airport carpark. While I was away, a huge hailstorm hit. You should have seen it! That smooth, burgundy exterior was absolutely covered in hail damage! And even after they’d repaired it, the back door leaked whenever it rained.
That car’s long gone, probably crushed in a wrecking yard – remember, it cost me a small fortune.
Nice things are, well, nice. But they don’t last. And the more we invest, financially and emotionally, in our possessions, the more our possessions end up possessing us.
Matthew 6:19-20 Don’t save treasures for yourselves here on earth. Moths and rust will destroy them. And thieves can break into your house and steal them. Instead, save your treasures in heaven, where they cannot be destroyed by moths or rust and where thieves cannot break in and steal them.
… or hailstorms destroy them. Eventually I figured it out. It doesn’t matter how much you spend on them, possessions will never, ever, satisfy you. Ever.
But when we invest in heaven instead, when we invest in our relationship with Jesus instead, nothing can ever take that away. Ever.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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Louise Tweedale
Hi Berni, Invest in heaven instead. I think I’ve gone off on a tangent of dotting the I’s and crossing the ...
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Hi Berni,
Invest in heaven instead. I think I’ve gone off on a tangent of dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s. Not putting much thought to what is most important!
When does that sink in? Busy ness i have started to invest in. And I am stuck… mentally weary. I live with my family two adult daughters and my brother who have issues. And a very old black dog. I work full time 12hour shifts. My husband has died so I can attest to the truth of you can’t take it with you when you die. The old adage ‘there is no roof rack on a coffin’ rings true.
I just feel overwhelmed. I feel out of sink with what God wants of me. I am still greiving. It seems worse now then when Neil died in March. I don’t want to be sad anymore. Or angry about the total waste of a wonderful man who had something I don’t understand ‘post traumatic stress’ depression? Introvert needing space to work things out and me needing to talk about what bothed me.
The hunter moon affected his mood. Every time we would have a big barney I would look up to this huge moon sitting in the sky.
In short or should I say log I feel adrift at the moment. Chasing after stuff. Give away to grief. Not thinking. Or thinking too much…sigh! Tears.
Thankyou Berni