"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." -Matthew 6:19-21
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we are only here on this earth for such a short amount of time in comparison to eternity. I heard a neat little parable from a close friend recently. It went something like this:
There was a man who had a dream that he checked his bank account and there was a substantial amount of money in there. It was $86,000 he found in his bank account. He woke up and thought, "Oh, it was just a dream," only to find that after checking his bank (in real life) that there really was $86,000 in there. However, he is told that he is not guaranteed to get the money to roll over day-to-day, so he must spend it all every single day or it will go to waste. So he thought of what was important to him enough to spend that much money on everyday: family, an education, or superficial stuff he doesn't really need but decides could be useful somewhere down the road. But he was spending the money he had just to spend it, not because anything he purchased with it really meant anything to him.
Moral of the story is that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, and tomorrow is never guaranteed. We can never roll over time from one day to another, so if we use our time on pointless stuff, we may receive temporary satisfaction, but in the long run the superficial stuff doesn't provide anything for the kingdom of heaven.
Each person has the same amount of time as everyone else. No one can buy more time, trade it, or sell it. But what we spend our time doing shows what is most important to us. Think about it. If you spend $1100 on something, it is probably really important to you. If every dollar represented a second of time, this is the equivalent of about 3 hours. If you spend 3 hours on one thing, it must have some value to you.
I love the idea that Time=Intimacy. The more time you spend with people or doing a particular activity, the more it means to you. We should treasure the time that we do have, because we aren't guaranteed to have any tomorrow.
I keep thinking to myself, "What do you spend your free time doing?"
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we are only here on this earth for such a short amount of time in comparison to eternity. I heard a neat little parable from a close friend recently. It went something like this:
There was a man who had a dream that he checked his bank account and there was a substantial amount of money in there. It was $86,000 he found in his bank account. He woke up and thought, "Oh, it was just a dream," only to find that after checking his bank (in real life) that there really was $86,000 in there. However, he is told that he is not guaranteed to get the money to roll over day-to-day, so he must spend it all every single day or it will go to waste. So he thought of what was important to him enough to spend that much money on everyday: family, an education, or superficial stuff he doesn't really need but decides could be useful somewhere down the road. But he was spending the money he had just to spend it, not because anything he purchased with it really meant anything to him.
Moral of the story is that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, and tomorrow is never guaranteed. We can never roll over time from one day to another, so if we use our time on pointless stuff, we may receive temporary satisfaction, but in the long run the superficial stuff doesn't provide anything for the kingdom of heaven.
Each person has the same amount of time as everyone else. No one can buy more time, trade it, or sell it. But what we spend our time doing shows what is most important to us. Think about it. If you spend $1100 on something, it is probably really important to you. If every dollar represented a second of time, this is the equivalent of about 3 hours. If you spend 3 hours on one thing, it must have some value to you.
I love the idea that Time=Intimacy. The more time you spend with people or doing a particular activity, the more it means to you. We should treasure the time that we do have, because we aren't guaranteed to have any tomorrow.
I keep thinking to myself, "What do you spend your free time doing?"
