1 John 2:15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world....and the world is passing away..."
I was watching the Southern California fire coverage yesterday when the reporters focused on this massive "castlellic-home" burning down to the ground. It's set up high in this exclusive area of Malibu once majestic with turrets and medieval stone walls. I was astonished by the reply of this woman who owned the estate when asked by the reporter how she feels about the loss of her property. She replied "My father did not teach me to allow my possessions to possess me...It's alright".
I don't know if this woman knows the Lord or not but that is the very instuction of our heavenly father not to be attached to a single penny or gizmo when he calls us home to our mansion in heaven.
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It's hard to be intergalactic when you're weighed down by earthly things.
How thin is the line between us and the homeless? Will we praise him for better or for worse? Are we not His bride? Do my possessions follow me into the grave? What truely matter? I don't know how I will make my morgage payment on a house I do not deserve to dwell in? But...
April 1, Honiara, Solomon Islands: Magnitude 8.1 earthquake and ensuing tsunami left at least 34 dead and thousands homeless. June 10, Chittagong, Bangladesh and Beijing, China: Mudslides set off by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 62 people in Bangladesh. Torrential rains in southern China caused flooding in small cities and farming villages, killing at least 66. July 8, West Bengal, India: Monsoon rains and flooding left 660 dead and more than a million stranded. August 15, coast of central Peru: A 8.0-magnitude earthquake 95 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, leaves at least 337 people dead, and injures hundreds more. October 21–25, southern Calif.: 16 wildfires from Simi Valley to the Mexican border are fanned by 50 to 60 mph winds burning 500,000 acres. Three people die, 57 people are injured, and at least 1,800 homes are destroyed. Over 500,000 people evacuate their homes while nearly 1,000 firefighters fight the flames
Have you tried eating locusts and honey?
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