West Cocoa Chat

If you want a powerful and emotional picture of the church being Jesus to one of it’s own, please visit Jordan’s Blog at http://jordansjotsntexas.blogspot.com/

It brought me to tears. God bless Jordan, his sister, his family, and this church.

¹⁹"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Now I suppose that all fellowships have their pet issue that they “like” to discuss and debate and there are times in my experience that these issues can be linked to being “Heaven and Hell” issues. I know of a local preacher that would probably say that someone “clapping” in a worship assembly could be condemning their soul to Hell. I think most of us would find that position both silly and unbiblical. I believe that Jesus in the above passage is discussing something that He believes to be in the “Heaven and Hell” category.

Don made a great point yesterday when he said if you want to see where someone’s heart is (as in verse 21) then all you need do is look at their checkbook or bank statement. Many of us including yours truly have done some creative financing to buy something that we truly wanted, our heart’s desire if you will. How many of us have done some of the same kind of creative financing to help a missionary or help fund a ministry. This point really hit me hard. I loved and hated Don’s illustration.

Don spoke of taking his Grand-daughter out for lunch to McDonald’s when she was 4. He bought her a Happy Meal and she was busily enjoying the cheeseburger and fries. Don decided to try one of Ashley’s fries and as he was pulling the fry from the bag Ashley quickly said, “Paw-paw, those are “my” fries! Don said he looked at her and thought for a moment, “Well you little bird – your fries! Do you now know that I could walk over to the counter and buy enough fries to bury you in and then some!”

The point – Does God ever think that about us when we say to him, “These are my things, my blessing, and my money! “I” don’t have enough to give anything back to you!” Now granted, we are all at different points along the “financial continuum” but wherever we are in life there are two things that are perfectly clear:

1. Again from Don – I’ve never seen a Hearst (or whatever vehicle the England Family Mortuary drives to Cemeteries) hauling a U-Haul behind it.

2. Everything we have comes from the Father.

I would not label Don’s fine sermon or this post about giving. Rather, it is about the heart for where I find my treasures, you’ll find my heart.

Have a good day family.

// posted by cwinwc @ 10:25 AM