Friday, June 17, 2011
The First Step
It is Friday, the end of a very fulfilling VBS week. Just a few weeks ago 70+ volunteers were involved in our community service day. This past week 60+ kids were blessed through our VBS. At 4:30am I will be leaving for our mission trip in New Mexico. Our team is going to the Manuelito Navajo Children's home in Gallup, NM (see http://www.mnch.org/ for more info). What does God have in store for this coming week? What challenges will we face. What opportunities are awaiting us? Please pray for our team. Also, you can comment here with notes of encouragement that I will share with our group every night at devotionals. Check back in for updates and pictures!
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Eternal Investment
Tomorrow Amanda and I go to meet with our financial advisor. At this once a year meeting we hear all about how we are progressing toward our financial goals. Our goals are to pay off our home, help our kids with college expenses, and eventually retire. Our advisor tells us what to do with our money to accomplish these goals. Yesterday we sold a vehicle that had 2 years of payments left. We sold it in order to eliminate our car payment. This small sacrifice was made to help us reach our goals.
In Matthew 6 Jesus tells us to store treasures in heaven. Honestly, I am not certain what heavenly treasure is. I doubt that it is currency or heavenly real estate (a cloud condo with golf course view). I will do my best to share an educated guess.
We spend 40+ hours a week securing our housing, food, clothing, utilities and savings. I think Jesus is telling us that we should be spending some time securing our salvation. Investing time and effort into being good Christians has eternal value. Once our salvation is secure I think we need to turn our focus to that which God values most... people. By bringing others to Christ we are expanding the kingdom of heaven. In so doing we are storing up souls in eternity.
What are your heavenly goals? What sacrifices might need to be made to accomplish these goals? How much time and effort do we put into kingdom investments?
In Matthew 6 Jesus tells us to store treasures in heaven. Honestly, I am not certain what heavenly treasure is. I doubt that it is currency or heavenly real estate (a cloud condo with golf course view). I will do my best to share an educated guess.
We spend 40+ hours a week securing our housing, food, clothing, utilities and savings. I think Jesus is telling us that we should be spending some time securing our salvation. Investing time and effort into being good Christians has eternal value. Once our salvation is secure I think we need to turn our focus to that which God values most... people. By bringing others to Christ we are expanding the kingdom of heaven. In so doing we are storing up souls in eternity.
What are your heavenly goals? What sacrifices might need to be made to accomplish these goals? How much time and effort do we put into kingdom investments?
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