We Still Have God
“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.” (Matt 6:20)
As Christians we look at everything differently. …
People of the world, for instance, hope for life, health, financial prosperity, international peace and a set of favourable circumstances. These are their resources—upon them they rest. They look to them as a child looks to its nursing mother.
Christians do not despise these temporal blessings, and if they come to them, they sanctify them by receiving them with prayers of … gratitude to God. But they know their everlasting welfare is not dependent upon them. These blessings may come or go, but true Christians abide in God where no evil can touch them and where they are rich beyond all the power of their minds to conceive—and this altogether apart from earthly circumstances. …
The world’s resources are good in their way, but they have this fatal defect—they arc uncertain and transitory. Today we have them, tomorrow they are gone. It is this way with all earthly things since sin came to upset the beautiful order of nature and made the human race victims of chance and change….
If the world’s foundations crumble we still have God, and in Him we have everything essential to our ransomed beings forever.
Thank You, Father, for the eternal treasure that can be mine when I serve You. Keep me from the lure of transitory treasure and focused on that which is eternal. Amen.
