Lay Treasures in Heaven Instead

Matthew 6:19–20 NASB95

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

Nothing to live for

Consider this life. Consider the billions of human beings who have gone ahead of us.

This world has nothing to offer us.

Fame, and riches? Sounds great to have a comfortable life..

Maybe even leave a legacy.

Consider someone great in history like Martin Luther King Jr.

He was an incredible man with incredible job

All for what? Yes, we are living under the fruit of his successes.

What has he become? Just a chapter in our High School history book.

What about the richest?

You can easily find rich people talk about how the rich are the one with saddest life.

You work and work and work, become tremendously successful with no friends, no family, nothing.

Friends and family?

Sounds great, but don’t friends leave? betray? Same for family.

Don’t families break apart?

Of course, all some radical examples, but the point still stands.

Everything this world has to offer us, is nothing.

We come into this world with nothing and we all leave with nothing.

Lay treasures in heaven

Why not live for something that will last you an eternity?

Would you rather me give you a fish? Or teach you how to fish?

Would you rather me give you a million dollars? Or how to make a million dollars?

Why pick what will most certainly turn into dirt?

Why not pick the things that will last for literally eternally?