Mid-week Musings - Investing in His Kingdom
Imagine for a moment that you are alive at the end of the Civil War. You are living in the South, but your home is really in the North. While the South you have accumulated a good amount of Confederate currency. Suppose you know that the North is going to win the war soon. What will you do with your Confederate currency?
If you were smart, there is only one answer to the question. You would cash in your Confederate currency for US currency - the only money that will have value once the war is over. You would keep only enough Confederate currency to meet your basic needs for that short period until the war is over.
The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent. For us to accumulate vast earthly treasures in the face of the inevitable future is the equivalent to stockpiling Confederate money.
The only currency of value in heave is our present service and generous giving to God's Kingdom. Jim Elliot, the martyred missionary, said it this way, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
~Randy Alcorn~
posted by Mel-Vern @ 10:54 PM
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