Moving again...

Moving again...

Just a little over a year ago, I moved to a new community. This past week I moved again into a new home, but the same community...the stuff we carry along...business papers, file cabinets, family trinkets, old and new photo albums, cooking utensils,bedding, computer stuff, furniture, etc., etc., etc.....

How did Abraham and Sarah  do it? The Israelites in the desert? Joseph and Mary?  It would take a huge caravan of camels to move my "stuff" now...

Then, I don't  have to look too far to find temporary migrant housing or people pushing grocery carts with all of their worldly belongings or others living out of their car, or in the bushes...or watch refugees living in tent shelters and cities....abused women and children hiding in hotel rooms or safe houses...
All of their "stuff" basically on their backs...their stuff and life's belongings gone...

I am blessed, but if comes with a price and a responsibility as well...I won't be taking it to the grave and there is no room for it in heaven nor will I need it then...a lot will go to thrift stores, some to family to store in their garages, some to trash...some meaningful, a lot not to others...some useful...

We are told not to worry about worldly things, that God knows our needs in Matthew...and he does, thank YOU...help me be wise with "stuff"...not to put it before YOU...but be more concerned about treasures in heaven...help me to be a good steward of the "stuff" that has been entrusted to me...not to be entangled with it...

19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:19-34