Get Real November 16 Devotional
November 16, 2024
MATTHEW 6:19 | o not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
Storing treasures for ourselves, we learn, is simply unwise and impractical. Things bought new and shiny age and wear out. They oxidize in the air and rust, time and nature tend toward disintegration not preservation. Just ask anyone building a budget about “maintenance”. History also can destroy the things we accumulate. Markets tank. Investments sour. Others can take from us, physically or through digital piracy. Everything we do own and maintain will eventually be owned by someone else, even if it is not stolen.
Putting everything we own into accumulation is ultimately futile but all the time a bad bargain. There is grace in this warning.
Have you discovered, by experience, the tenuousness of things owned?
Which threat mentioned in this verse is most real to you?
