Here and now is only a minute compared to eternity come. Hold onto things lightly then and look foward to what you can hold forever.

I was riding in a car with a couple of people and one of them said that they wanted to be rich. From there a small discussion emerged. I said I never wanted to be rich because life becomes so much more complicated with so many more distractions. We did talk about how if we were rich what we could do like give more away or get a big house so that others could live there for free.

This conversation coincided directly to what I was reading in Mark 10 the next day. (funny how God does those things) Jesus explains to his disciples that it is a challenge for any rich man...well any man really, to enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Jesus tells them that only God is the one who can get man in. And all of us know this right? We know that if we believe in Jesus then we will go to heaven. But Jesus keeps going and says something that was even better.

He says that those who give up their family, their homes, their lives then they will receive a hunderd times full in eternity to come. I was struck by this really. That this life we are to give it to him and he will return to it to us even more in eternity. Now think 80 yrs vs. 1000000000. Thats alot, now think eternity! In all reality our time hear on earth is only a minute compared to eternity. Hold onto things lightly here and now. Give them back to him when ever he asks and be willing to go where ever he goes and do whatever he wants you to do. Your reward will be great and you CAN hold it forever!