I once read about a man who bought a
luxurious house and filled it with expensive and impressive furnishings. After
taking a friend on a tour through the mansion’s many spacious rooms, the owner
asked proudly, “Well, what do you think of it?” He expected to hear lavish
praise so he was stunned when his guest replied, “It is magnificent; but to be
perfectly frank, things like this make a deathbed terrible.”
In the parable of the rich farmer
(Luke 12:16-21) says..
“Jesus told about a man who thought
riches could satisfy his soul. But God called him a fool, and said, this night
your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you
have provided?”
If we cherish this world’s goods so much
that the prospect of heaven loses its attraction, we can be sure that the
earthly has become more valuable to us than the heavenly. The treasure we
possess is misplaced.
Jesus said:
For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:21)
May the enjoyment of our temporal
possessions never diminish the appeal of the eternal. Earth’s affluence is
poverty when compared to the glories of eternal life with God.
If we live for wealth and fame, we’ll
bring dishonor to Christ’s name; but truth and light will flood our soul when
we pursue a heavenly goal. Invest your life in what pays eternal dividends.
Invest our treasure in the Lord. And let us reach others who lives so far from
us within the Gospel.
Let us make our life busy in building
a kingdom that is unseen than building a mansion that we have seen. And mansion
will be shaken. But a kingdom will remain still.
God Bless YOU..
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