Ch. 191 - Treasures

This week's memory verse:

' "Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." '
[Matthew 6:19-21]

22. August 2010 Edit:

People are so strange. I mean, we focus on the here and now... yet also the future.

If I do "this" now... it will get me "that" or "here" in the future.

We will do anything to get ahead. Yet it isn't even always a case of survival of the fittest, necessarily. We want the best for ourselves. We want to impress. We want to be comfortable. We are selfish. We are greedy. And then we become jealous of what we have, and envious of what we do not. People truly lead vicious day-to-day lives. For wealth. For power. For... nothing. These things all pass away. They mean nothing to our Lord God. They are finite, just as we are. Will we get to bring all this "stuff" and whatnot with us when we die? The answer is no. The things that do matter, of course, do not revolve around oneself. That which we store up in heaven can come from many things. But it certainly involves selflessness and humility... things that "we" seem to know little about.