BBD 10.01.07 Priorities
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10.01.07
Priorities
Do not lay up for 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. The
lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body
will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full
of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is
that darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one
and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and mammon. - Matthew 6:19-24.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you. - Matthew 6:33.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have
come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. -
John 10:10.
In August, investigators for the Pentagon found that some things that
appeared to be priority-shipping items were only scams. A business in South
Carolina shipped a couple of metal washers, which cost 19 cents a piece to a
military base located in Texas. The shipping costs for those two metal
washers were truly astronomical. It cost $999,798 to ship those two little
washers! But it does not stop there because the business scammed a total of
$20.5 million from the Defense Department in fraudulent shipping charges!!
This scam was made possible by the Defense Department having a "priority"
shipping policy. When invoices for shipping were labeled "priority", the
policy was to pay the invoice without question or investigation.
What may appear to be a priority or is said to be a priority in your life
may not actually be either - they may actually just be scams depriving you
of life. One of those supposed priorities is to have money to buy things. It
is called, materialism. We are continually bombarded with advertising in all
forms of media to buy this, to buy that, to have something, or to own
something. Almost from the time that we are born, we have this constant
input of the materialistic world implanted into our hearts and minds.
Why is materialism a scam robbing you of life? Because your focus, your
energies are placed toward obtaining those material things. But once you
have all those material things that you have worked so hard to have - do you
have more life? No. I would submit to you that after you have all of the
material world that any human being could possibly want that you still would
not have any more life. Actually, you will have less life because all of
your focus and energies that you have placed upon the material could have
been used to gain more life by putting first the Kingdom of God.
Money and things can never buy love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23)
which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and what God wants each of His
children to have. What is it that you have been trying to buy with your
life? Maybe it is time to place your focus, your energies, in a new
direction that will bring you far greater returns. Stop being scammed by the
world, the flesh, and the devil. Put the Lord first in your life and He will
reward you with life, real life beyond anything this world can give.
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