IT IS JUST STUFF!
(Deu 12:9) For you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. – (Mic 2:10) "Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
These verses of scripture prophetically warn against placing material STUFF above or instead of Jesus, our Christ. We humans are pack-rats. We place such stock and worth in the material, that which will certainly not travel with us when we leave this earth. Christ Jesus has made it possible for us to store all of our precious treasures [even our souls] in a place not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens. Naked you entered this world, Naked you will leave it.
(Heb 6:19-20) This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
(Joh 14:2-3) "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
Paul writes an Epistle of encouragement to look beyond the earthly tomorrow and to the glorious promised life everlasting in the Kingdom of God.
(Php 1:23) But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;-- (Rev 21:4) and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."-- (Job 3:17) "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
Numerous times I have stood along side and prayed with God's precious children while standing next to piles of their worldly possessions, now destroyed. Be it flood, hurricane, fire or other catastrophic event, lives were spared, STUFF was destroyed. The grief of loss was real. The memories attached to those items was engraved into their souls. Even without the physical keepsake, the memory remained.
(Mat 6:20-21) "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
(Col 3:2) Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Set your mind on Christ Jesus!
HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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