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"Labor not to
be rich:
cease from
thine own wisdom.
Wilt thou set
thine eyes upon that which is not?
For
riches certainly make themselves
wings;
they fly away
as an eagle toward heaven."
Proverbs 23:4-5
"Riches Have Wings!"
People in their
search for security eventually find out,
nothing is forever.
Money being
spent for pleasure, and even daily needs, is
soon gone.
People put
their money into what they believe to be sound
investments,
such as stocks,
bonds, real estate,
or they fill
their safety deposits boxes with jewelry and
cash. However, no investment, and no safety
deposit place on earth is safe.
Stock markets
go down as business firms fail.
Banks close
their doors every day.
And natural
disasters wipe away the value of land and
buildings.
We may look at
investments as future security
or
burglar-proofed to common thieves,
but time and
death ~ the cleverest thief of all,
take away the
owners.
And so, we end
our days as we began them,
with NOTHING!
Now I have to
ask,
How much wiser
is the Christian who,
through the
love of Christ,
is generous
toward the Lord and invests
time, talents,
and treasures in that which will bring
eternal
dividends!?
Jesus tells us,
"Lay
not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and
rust doth corrupt,
and where
thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where
thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your
treasure is,
there will your
heart be also."
Matthew 6:19-21
May the good
Lord help us to look at where and to what
purpose we are placing our investments.
(This
inspiration today was inspired after selling
one share of stock which was given to me as a
gift over two years ago, at which time it was
worth
a little over
$65. Today it closed at $47.32)
"Lord
Dictated Them"
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