"Where your treasure is..."
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:1...9-21)
What is your treasure? It could be something as simple as marbles.
What is your treasure? It could be something as simple as marbles.
4 Comments:
But where is this "Heaven" where we are supposed to keep our treasures?
My take is that it is not a place (although I am not at all denying the probable existence of other created universes we might go physically or spiritually) but (like Eden) a certain connection with God. "Innocence" by itself was not enough to sustain that connection, hence "The Fall" which is preparing us to re-establish it on a more enduring basis.
I'm not inclined to go out of my way to discern the spirituality or otherwise of someone's love of marbles. (I do often observe how our love of the marbles between our ears can be a snare... Wanna play?) But a sincere love of any harmless thing is a gift, tis it not?
Hi Forrest,
Not guilty as charged of going out of my way to discern the spirituality of someone's love of marbles. Rather, the video shows an extreme but good example of how something we enjoy can grow to consume us and dominate our lives. Spending all of one's waking hours engaged in an activity purely for the enjoyment it brings us, and doing so at the expense of all else--including our loved ones--is probably not a harmless thing.
We all have our "marbles", do we not?
Sorry, as my computer is not correctly wired for sounds I bypassed the video and went for the marbles...
No charges brought, all dismissed... and no intention of hauling anyone into court, just striking a Quaker blow against the longstanding Quaker tradition of badmouthing trivial pleasures...
and probably, too, I should say something about the more modern tendency to disapprove any criticism, no matter how warranted, of other people's ways. Guilty, guilty, guilty--but I'm got an 'in' with the Public Defender and expect to get off!
Possibly final thought on this... An obsession, while not the healthiest of conditions, may be the best a person can do towards fending off a world (including the possibly unsatisfiable needs of various 'loved ones') that otherwise could overwhelm. Prayers seem in order, that this flight finds its appropriate limits and leaves the guy in better shape than when he took it up.
Well said Forrest.
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