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TITLE: Laying Up Treasures In Heaven | Previous Challenge Entry
By Anne Harrell
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In the Sermon on the Mount Christ tells about laying up of our treasures in Heaven instead of here on earth. Our works here on earth are like filthy rags to Christ in Heaven. Storing our riches in Heaven we have lot to gain.
Christ says in Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV)
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The worldly people here on earth lay up their riches here not looking forward to Heaven. They are taking their chances where thieves come in the night where there is nothing left to be joyful about. Here we have bills that come due where it eats at our treasures here then before we know it all our monies are all gone. There is nothing to show for the money we have earned.
If we do things for our brother, we will find that when Christ comes again we will have riches in glory. Those riches we place in Heaven have a running toll and will add up. Nothing can be taken from them leaving us disappointed.
Some ways that we can lay our wealth in Heaven is, doing the will of our Heavenly Father, doing unto others as we will have done to us. We can always do the work of God by telling what Christ has done for us. Help your neighbor who is in need. What we do in private for the Lord, He will reward us openly in Heaven.
People often lay the success here on earth, by having homes and cars that are beyond their means where they find themselves neglecting their families. They are sometimes sad for having to meet demands and they don’t have time to help others because they are always working to keep up their appearance. Forget about them ever helping the church because they are way to busy!
When we store prosperity in Heaven is like we have built our homes on a solid rock and not on sand where when the wind and rain blows is blown away. Matthew 7:24-27 (ESV)
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
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