Where Is Your Treasure? Matthew 6:19-24

Have you ever played the game, MONOPOLY?  Monopoly is the game where players accumulate property, build houses and hotels, and then wait for the other players to land on their property so they have to pay up.  Eventually, you hope to bankrupt everyone else and take all the money and property.  But, regardless of who wins the game, when the game is over, the board is folded up, all the pieces put away, and the lid goes on the box.  It has only been a game.  This is exactly how it is in this "more is better" society in which we live.  When our life is over, the game pieces are put away and the lid closed on our coffin.  At that point, it won't matter who owned the railroads and Boardwalk.  Earthly wealth doesn't guarantee earthly happiness or heavenly treasure.  As Christians, we ought to spend our lives laying up "treasures in Heaven."  The treasures we send on ahead to heaven are mothproof, rustproof, and burglarproof.  How, then, do we make deposits on earth that yield heavenly dividends?  We store up treasuress in heaven by investing our money in that which lasts for eternity --- the lives and souls of people!  Everything else will decay and/or disappear.  As missionary Jim Elliot once said, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."  AMEN!