Earthly Treasure

Here is a few little thoughts from a few months ago, I guess I forgot to post it:

As I was perusing around on twitter this evening, I read many things about the ACM awards. As people began to say that they were so excited for the awards, or to watch the awards; my heart began to hurt. It became so clear to me the value that we - as a society - have put on earthly things.

How many of us choose to listen or buy 'that' song because so-and-so won an award for it? Guilty as charged.

When I started dwelling on this topic, and asking the Lord why He put it on my heart, I realized that material things were eating up more of my life and time than I ever thought they were. An example, tonight me and a friend went looking through are mall and on the way I had unwillingly made a mental check list of everything I wanted - being frank, the making the list wasn't the unwilling part, the sudden realization when I got home and I was trying to figure out how to pay for everything on the list was. Shockingly it was a long and costly list.

When I saw twitter, I was angry at everyone else for making the very same mistake I was in the process of making. I started writing this blog entry as an angry rant about how much evil has crept into our world, but I am not innocent, it has come into my life too. This doesn't mean that I'm not going to buy clothes, music, or anything else - it means I am going to try and exercise caution to buy what is necessary. Even more importantly not to put value onto objects that make no difference to who I am as a daughter of Christ.

Matthew 6:19-21 says, "Do not lay up 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."

I want to make my treasure in heaven, not in anything I can buy here on earth. A proverb also struck me when reading my bible this evening, that I think speaks perfectly to how I wish my attitude towards objects is.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than one perverse in his ways, though he be rich."
                                                                                                                      Proverbs 28:6