A Safe Place for Our Treasures

[Daily Devotional]

A Safe Place for Our Treasures 
     Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also. Matt. 6:19-21.  

     Mark these words of the Great Teacher, who spake as never man spake. He
sets before you the course to pursue if you would serve your best interests
in this life, and lay up for yourselves an eternal treasure. "Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth." There is danger of losing all in the
pursuit of worldly gain, for in the feverish eagerness for earthly treasure,
higher interests are forgotten. . . .  

     If your thoughts, your plans, your purposes, are all directed toward
the accumulation of the things of earth, your anxiety, your study, your
interests, will all be centered upon the world. The heavenly attractions
will lose their beauty. The glories of the eternal world will cease to have
the force of reality to you. Your heart will be with your treasure, and
every faculty of your mind will be so concentrated on the work you have
chosen that you will not heed the warnings and entreaties of the Word and
Spirit of God. You will have no time to devote to the study of the
Scriptures and to earnest prayer that you may escape the snares of Satan.  

     This work of transferring your possessions to the world above is worthy
of all your best energies. It is of the highest importance, and involves
your eternal interests. That which you bestow in the cause of God is not
lost. All that is given for the salvation of souls and the glory of God is
invested in the most successful enterprise in this life and in the life to
come. Your talents of gold and silver, if given to the exchangers, are
gaining continually in value, which will be registered to your account in
the kingdom of heaven. You are to be the recipients of the eternal wealth
that has increased in the hands of the exchangers. In giving to the work of
God, you are laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven. All that you lay
up above is secure from disaster and loss and is increasing to an eternal,
and enduring, substance.

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