Your Real Riches Don't collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don't break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. MATTHEW 6:19-21 HCSB
All too often we focus our thoughts and energies on the accumulation of earthly treasures, creating untold stress in our lives and leaving precious little time to accumulate the only treasures that really matter: the spiritual kind. Our material possessions have the potential to do great good-depending upon how we use them. If we allow the things we own to own us, we may pay dearly for our misplaced priorities. Society focuses intently on material possessions, but God's Word teaches us time and again that money matters little when compared to the spiritual gifts that the Creator offers to those who put Him first in their lives. So today, keep your possessions in perspective. Remember that God should come first, and everything else next. When you give God His rightful place in your heart, you'll have a clearer vision of the things that really matter. Then, you can joyfully thank your Heavenly Father for spiritual blessings that are, in truth, too numerous to count. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ~Jim Elliot Wealth is something entrusted to us by God, something God doesn't want us to trust. He wants us to trust Him. ~Warren Wiersbe When possessions become our god, we become materialistic and greedy . . and we forfeit our contentment and our joy. ~Charles Swindoll What we possess often possesses us-we are possessed by possessions. ~Oswald Chambers TODAY'S PRAYER Dear Lord, all I have belongs to You. When I leave this world I take nothing with me. Help me to value my relationship with You-and my relationships with others-more than I value my material possessions. Amen O. Addison Gethers e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
