Before I begin, I must first confess I am guilty of this post’s topic.
I recently watched a program on TV (yes I realize I have just made a second confession: still watching old technology). A woman of some beauty and worldly wealth had accumulated every woman’s dream closet stuffed with a wardrobe lacking nothing. The woman had past and the only outfit she took with her was the one her world suit (body) had been laid to rest in. At best, it is now buried and she is no longer able to enjoy it. Now her stuff is vintage and selling for a high dollar in an Los Angeles California elite shop. She cannot enjoy spending the profit(s) for the sale(s).
You know what I am getting at. We are collectors of too much stuff. When our earth suits are laid to rest or “caught up” (1 Thessalonians 4:17), our “stuff” will be picked through.
What does our possessions show about the values we lived by? Will it indicate that we lived our lives with a balance when accumulating stuff? Was the opportunity to fund the Gospel missed or invested in eternal souls? Most would agree that our timeline in history is in the final days of the Church dispensation.
Sort of gives the idea of spring cleaning and garage sale season new meaning.
Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:13-14 (KJV)
Jesus said unto him, If you wilt be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. Matthew 19:21 (KJV)
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow Me. Mark 10:21(KJV)
Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. Luke 12:33 (KJV)
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow Me. Luke 18:22 (KJV)
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord… 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJV)
James 4:13-17 (KJV)
Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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