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A Safe Place for Our Treasures, August 5
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
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Mark these words of the Great Teacher, who spake as never man spake.
He sets before you the course to pursue if you would serve your best
interests in this life, and lay up for yourselves an eternal treasure. “Lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth.” There is danger of losing all in the
pursuit of worldly gain, for in the feverish eagerness for earthly treasure,
higher interests are forgotten....
If your thoughts, your plans, your purposes, are all directed toward the
accumulation of the things of earth, your anxiety, your study, your interests,
will all be centered upon the world. The heavenly attractions will lose their
beauty. The glories of the eternal world will cease to have the force of
reality to you. Your heart will be with your treasure, and every faculty of
your mind will be so concentrated on the work you have chosen that you
will not heed the warnings and entreaties of the Word and Spirit of God.
You will have no time to devote to the study of the Scriptures and to earnest
prayer that you may escape the snares of Satan
This work of transferring your possessions to the world above is worthy
of all your best energies. It is of the highest importance, and involves your
eternal interests. That which you bestow in the cause of God is not lost. All
that is given for the salvation of souls and the glory of God is invested in the
most successful enterprise in this life and in the life to come. Your talents
of gold and silver, if given to the exchangers, are gaining continually in
value, which will be registered to your account in the kingdom of heaven.
You are to be the recipients of the eternal wealth that has increased in the
hands of the exchangers. In giving to the work of God, you are laying up
for yourselves treasures in heaven. All that you lay up above is secure from
disaster and loss and is increasing to an eternal, and enduring, substance
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Ibid
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Ibid
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