Store up
Jesus said,
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21.
An interesting statistic has just been published. The top sixty-two richest people in the world have more money that the bottom half of the worlds population combined.
That is an incredible statistic. Sixty-two people with more money than the poorest half of the worlds population combined!
The good new is that over one hundred billionaires have pledged to give away half their fortunes before their death or at death.
There is however an equalizer in all of this, death. When those billionaires die they will enter the next life with the same amount of money as the poorest person enters with, none.
There’s nothing wrong with being rich or poor. The apostle Paul points out,
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
1 Timothy 6:10.
It’s the love of money that causes problems.
Today there are many people with great wealth that are doing great things to help the poor and aid in fixing problems within our society. And these people are to be congratulated for what they are doing.
There is however a bottom line in everyone’s life. That bottom line being death.
I believe everyone has to ask themselves at some point the question “where will I spend eternity?”
There will come a time in everyone’s life when having or wanting the latest gadget will mean nothing.
Tony Campolo the American evangelist put it this way,
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?”
Tony Campolo.
People can say there is no God. That when life ends its simply oblivion, but that doesn’t mean its true. Every society in history has believed in an after life. To say they are wrong or delusional is to say the majority of people that have ever lived are believing a lie.
C. S. Lewis said,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
Still the choice is up to the individual you can either believe there is a God or not. That is a persons right.
The question I would ask is, “Am I really certain about what I believe?” because the answer to the question will have eternal consequences.
Please think about it.
Jesus said,
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21.
An interesting statistic has just been published. The top sixty-two richest people in the world have more money that the bottom half of the worlds population combined.
That is an incredible statistic. Sixty-two people with more money than the poorest half of the worlds population combined!
The good new is that over one hundred billionaires have pledged to give away half their fortunes before their death or at death.
There is however an equalizer in all of this, death. When those billionaires die they will enter the next life with the same amount of money as the poorest person enters with, none.
There’s nothing wrong with being rich or poor. The apostle Paul points out,
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
1 Timothy 6:10.
It’s the love of money that causes problems.
Today there are many people with great wealth that are doing great things to help the poor and aid in fixing problems within our society. And these people are to be congratulated for what they are doing.
There is however a bottom line in everyone’s life. That bottom line being death.
I believe everyone has to ask themselves at some point the question “where will I spend eternity?”
There will come a time in everyone’s life when having or wanting the latest gadget will mean nothing.
Tony Campolo the American evangelist put it this way,
“When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?”
Tony Campolo.
People can say there is no God. That when life ends its simply oblivion, but that doesn’t mean its true. Every society in history has believed in an after life. To say they are wrong or delusional is to say the majority of people that have ever lived are believing a lie.
C. S. Lewis said,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
Still the choice is up to the individual you can either believe there is a God or not. That is a persons right.
The question I would ask is, “Am I really certain about what I believe?” because the answer to the question will have eternal consequences.
Please think about it.
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