Everything is gone
I’m reading about the hurricane devastation and seeing that phrase mentioned a lot. Is everything gone? Well, certainly people’s material possessions are gone. But how long were they really going to last anyway? Can we take them with us when we die? The folks that appear to be the big losers here are coming to a realization sooner than others - and that is: material possessions are temporary. Some folks will only come to that realization after they die, when it is too late to change their view of life. C. S. Lewis wrote,
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Is He shouting to a materialistic culture in this disaster? Have we become deaf to his whispers or calls? What can we learn from it? Can blessings come from what seems like a curse?
Matthew 6:19-20
Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or–worse!-stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars.
…and they’ll be safe from hurricanes too.
Tags: Theology
September 1st, 2005 at 9:44 am
WHy arent you doing the same Roger. You have a computer , a blog , misc “earthly ” items for sure, yet you tell everyone else to store treasures elsewhere in heaven.
What the crap ..
September 1st, 2005 at 1:37 pm
zthestudent,
Thanks for the comments. Living with an eternal perspective is always a good thing - because human souls are going to live on into eternity and our material possessions here on earth will not. Matthew 6:19-20 is just a reminder - not from me - but from our Creator. That’s why it resonates so much with us.