Learning to share the possessions we've been loaned is made easier by seeing these things from a heavenly perspective, as here today and gone tomorrow. Jesus counsels us not to store up earthly treasures because they will just end up making some moth a great lunch or turning to rust in some junkyard somewhere. Why get stuck on the stuff in our lives when it doesn't last for very long anyway?
There is no greater way to prove the "moth and rust" theory to yourself than to get out an old photo album and look at things you used to treasure. When we packed for our move to the cabin, I found one dilapidated old photo album from when Spike and I were dating and first married. There I was in one picture, vain as a peacock, in my new gray and white Tattersall wool dress with the pillbox hat to match.
I thought I was pretty snazzy in that outfit! But where is it today? In another photo from the same album, Spike and I were standing in front of his beautiful, new, red Chevy Corvair. We were absolutely stuck-up about that car when we first bought it, and yet today its remains are probably at the bottom of some scrap metal heap.
Considering the fate of that pillbox hat and that Chevy Corvair adds a lot of credence to Jesus' suggestion that we're much better off sharing the earthly stuff that God has loaned us and storing up heavenly treasures instead - the kind that "moth teeth" and junkyards can't get hold of. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". AUTHOR: Claire Cloninger (Read Matthew 6:19-26)
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