Safe Keeping

Life, Adventure or Battle

By William M. Self

Your treasures and your heart will be in the same place

If they are stored in heaven

Not even the IRS can take them away

Safe Keeping

One of my big dreams is to catch a Blue Marlin.

To catch a fish bigger than myself, with cameras on

the boat and under the water recording the event

 so I could relive the moment over and over again.

This dream has been in my heart for decades.

 

Over the years, things rusted out and needed to be

replaced and thieves have taken my hard earned money.

I could have lived that dream

for years with the money I lost.

I may never be able to finance that dream…

The fishing adventure of a life time.

I have tried to set money away for that dream,

 but there is always something that drains the funds.

Jesus tells us how to finance life’s greatest adventure.

 

He tells us to store up treasures in heaven.

Whether life is good or not so good,

I can make deposits into that account.

It’s amazing, when my earthly dreams are shattered, I

have the opportunity to add to my heavenly account.

God who keeps the heavenly bank

accepts every righteous act as payment.

 "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness"

The greatest adventure is “LIFE”…

 The destiny and purpose for which God created you.

Life’s greatest adventure is not something you did

and now you replay it on your favorite media.

The greatest adventure is eternal.

For every dream, every adventure to be a

reality, you have to put your heart into it.

Every dream and every adventure will have a cost.

What Jesus said is true...

Your heart and your treasure will always be in the same place.

Every investment this side of heaven

is subject to rust, thieves and the IRS.

So it only makes sense…

 Seek first the kingdom of heaven and God’s righteousness.

Place your heart and treasures in

the security of the heavenly account.

And as an added bonus…

All the other things will be added to you, as well.

Don’t let the BIG Adventure get away…

Marlins are small fries in comparison.

Scripture Reading

Matthew 6:19-21 NIV

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 moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:24-34 NIV

24 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,

and all these things will be given to you as well.

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

James 2:20-24 NIV

20 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God , and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

24 You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.