Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew 6 verses 19 through 24:
19 ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 ‘The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; 23but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 ‘No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
My grandfather used to say a very simple prayer, characteristically terse and right on point, even at the expense of grammatical formality:
“LORD, fix my Wanter.”
My Wanter always needs fixing. It needs somebody to remind it money can’t buy happiness. It needs somebody to tell it the truth — 10 percent more income ain’t gonna solve everything. My Wanter needs somebody to teach it the blessedness of giving. It needs somebody to show it the human and ecological cost of more and more cheap stuff. It needs somebody to tell it enough really is enough. And, my Wanter needs somebody to warn it again and again that in the end it’s all sand.
I know the LORD really is somebody who could fix me up. LORD, fix my Wanter — or else I’ll have to.
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