BANKING YOUR TREASURES

Today's reading: Job 27-28

"Evil people may have all the money in the world, and they may store away mounds of clothing. But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide all that money. The houses built by the wicked are as fragile as spiderwebs, as flimsy as a shelter made of branches." Job 27:16-18 NLT

Where is it you are storing up all your treasures?

Treasures--the things that mean the most to you. Valuable items to your heart.

If you are 'banking your treasures' in this world, you will one day find that others will have what you have stockpiled for a rainy day.

The fancy home--another will one day live in, completely remodel--or sell.

The title you're attempting to attain--there will always be someone of higher rank, deserving more respect and having achieved a degree with more 'letters' behind their name than yours.

The money you are saving up for a rainy day--can vanish in the blink of a stock market, the collapse of a bank or the wily investment of a trusted counselor.

The children you are preening to be all, do all and have all you never had--have their own free wills and are created for their own purposes, and may or may not follow the paths you have blazed for them.

So the things you are saving for, or investing your time and energy into--unless those things are held in heavenly places, invested in Kingdom advances or hold more spiritual value than earthly worth--may be as flimsy as a spiderweb.