I have always liked and understood this verse.
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From: O.Addison Gethers
To: Deaf-blind inspirational life groups ; Christian bible study groups
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:32 AM
Subject: {dbilg} Daily Devotion: New Life Every Day July 31
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
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