Hallelujah Savings & Loans Co

Do you ever wonder how much money is enough to have? or how many things it will take to finally make us happy? Here’s a small lesson I learned some years ago. I entered a contest where part of the requirement was that each contestant had to obtain paid advertisements. There was no gofundme.com or other money generating social media sites to help me out back then. I thought I had plenty of friends and family to get the job done, but funds slowly trickled in.

I shared my frustration with a dear friend who I hoped would commiserate with me. But she didn’t. Instead, with a gentle voice, she surprised me by this response “maybe people just aren’t interested in that.” Her words both caught me off guard and stung. After all, I’d taken interest in so many things that my family, friends or other people had done in the past. I’d supported many of their causes like a freshman cheerleader. How could they not support me now? Over time, I saw that my friend was right. The contest (which I didn’t win by the way) was based in vain, selfish motives. It involved actions that served to line someone else’s pockets with money.

Could it be that rather than more money, gadgets or things, what we really long for are the eternal treasures only God can place in our lives? And don’t we need a safe, secure place to store them in? like a sort of “Hallelujah Savings & Loan Company?

I’ve come to realize that things done for God’s purpose and that are in “His” will are what matters most.  Heavenly treasures are the ones that can give us a lasting degree of satisfaction and sense of life’s true purpose. These are the gifts, talents and Blessings God has bestowed on us for His Kingdom, not for our personal bravado, but for His Glory.

In the historic Sermon on the Mount, Jesus included this teaching also, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,” Matthew 6:19-20.

I want more of these treasures – the Godly kind, where paid advertisements aren’t necessary. And I want a safe, secure place to store them in too; a location where the dividends will be exponential and spiritual data remains hack-free.

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