Is there a creator?

Real Riches?

Luke chapter 12 verses 18 to 21:-   18 Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my storehouses and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and all my goods, 19 and I will say to myself: “You have many good things stored up for many years; take it easy, eat, drink, enjoy yourself.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Unreasonable one, this night they are demanding your life from you. Who, then, is to have the things you stored up?’ 21 So it goes with the man who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

Material things are ultimately worthless when compared to spiritual things. These things that we possess may make us happy for a short period of time, but we often find that we change the things we have in our homes frequently, because something else has caught our eye and we need to remove the item we previously loved in order to find the room for our new desired thing!

There is an old saying in the world, "You can't take it with you when you die!" However this fact does not stop many people from accumulating wealth and nice things without any thought for what the future might bring? As true Christians we all need to examine our reasons as to what is really important in our lives and home, because attachment to our possession's can provide a real danger to our spiritual health, and end up costing us our lives?

Focus Your Mind!

Matthew chapter 16 verse 26:-   26 Really, what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his life?

What really matters to you will guide your heart and your desires, and having to choose between one thing you like and another can be very difficult, and You will often find yourself struggling to make a decision about which one you are going to buy? Then within a few days or even a few hours after purchase you decide that you made a mistake and bought the wrong item. This purchase may cost you money, but it will not cost you your life!

But there can be situations which will (if you make the wrong choice) completely ruin your life or even end it! For example, you may decide when on holiday to walk to the edge of a cliff in order to get a better view of the sea shore hundreds of feet below, and just then the unstable cliff edge decides to crumble and break off plunging you to your death! In your eagerness for a better memory it caused you to disregard the message on the sign near the cliffs edge warning you of the danger!

Your Desire Can Kill?

1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 10:-   10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.

The scripture above is a real warning to those of us who love Jehovah! We need to look at ourselves closely in order to see what sort of persons we actually are? What do you really love in life? Is there a conflict between our love for Jehovah and our love for material things? Are we able (if the situation arises) to make an instant decision to leave all our possessions behind at a moments notice in order to prove our love for our God?

We may think this thought is extreme and may never happen? But the basic truth is clear, material things (including the love of money) will be a death dealing obstacle to our survival as the end of this system of things arrives! Your heart will tell you what you really love, and it is that love which will motivate you and guide your decisions as we approach Armageddon. don't be fooled into thinking you have plenty of time to alter your way of thinking, and changing your desires, we need to act now in order to keep our loving arrangement with our God Jehovah, our love for him must be greater than our love for anything else in life!

God or Riches?

Matthew chapter 6 verse 24:-   24 “No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. You cannot slave for God and for Riches.

Conclusion:   Jesus Christ warns us to  "remember the wife of Lot"!  This section of scripture is essential to our clear understanding of what it means to be faithful, and we should examine it closely in order to prepare ourselves for what is soon to be asked of all true Christians who profess to serve Jehovah? If material things are more important to us, if they dominate our thinking and desires, then leaving them behind will be impossible!

That was what cost Lot's wife her life, she may have looked back physically toward Sodom, but what killed her was the inability to accept the loss of her material things inside the house she was leaving behind! Her love for these things was greater that her love for Jehovah who was rescuing her from that needed destruction of those wicked cities and it's vile people! Similarly today we have to willingly give up our material possessions when the time comes, and prove our love for Jehovah is much stronger that our love for the things of this world, this choice means our lives!

Genesis chapter 19 verses 23 to 26:-   23 The sun had risen over the land when Lot arrived at Zo'ar. 24 Then Jehovah made it rain sulfur and fire on Sod'om and Go·mor'rah—it came from Jehovah, from the heavens. 25 So he overthrew these cities, yes, the entire district, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the plants of the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife, who was behind him, began to look back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Prove Your Love Now!