Today's Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 6 verses 19 through 21:
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.'
We have to hold the things of this world loosely.
There are objects of beauty and status and some which really bring us a lot of happiness.
But we have to hold them loosely. We can't allow ourselves to treasure them too much. We can't become overly attached to them.
Moths eat out favorite coats. Rust corrodes old Corvettes. Jewelry gets lost or stolen. Something inside us wants to scream when these things happen.
But they will happen; so let us not hold on to any of these things too tightly.
They are things; and no "thing" lasts forever.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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