These days are dangerous times, every day people receive emails ,texts, phone calls, from people who are out to rob them. I have received such calls, and even though you know they are a scam ,when they tell you that you owe money, or whatever you feel a bit of fear rising in your heart. Of course that is what they aim at, so that you panic, and so respond to them, and then they try to suck you in ,and unfortunately many people, give them their bank details, and the rest is history. Like most thieves and robbers they don't care about those they have cheated out of their money. Well Jesus spoke about those kind of people in Matthew 6 v 19 ff.,these verses are about money, He stresses in v24 ,those who devote their lives to a love of money, accumulating it, in other words it is something they worship, Jesus tells us we cannot serve God and money. When it comes to God ,He must come first, it must be Him and Him only we worship and serve, there is to be no divided loyalties. In this world we can so easily go along with the same values of the world , accumulating things, and forgetting what Jesus said, about the uncertainty of money and things. He is not saying it is wrong to have money, but it must not take over our lives. So He warns us that there are thieves who can so easily rob us, and we are left with nothing .Then He tells us to lay up treasures in heaven ,the most secure bank there is. We do this by helping others, the poor the needy ,by being generous , even at times be sacrificial. Just to remind you He is talking to Christians, we are not saved by money ( 1 Peter 1 v 18 - 19), but we will be held accountable ,as to our stewardship of it.
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