Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Material world


“…and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.” – Hebrews 10: 34

WE live in an age of planned obsolescence. The commercial imperative is that things are designed to be replaced. Even our loveliest, most costly vehicles end up in junkyards, crushed and abandoned. Knowing this, reminds me again that the things we can see – even, I suppose, rare antiquities – are of passing value, but there are things we can’t see that will last forever. The Lord tells us not to put too much value on material things. Our truly invaluable, great, and everlasting things are to be found in Christ and His Holy Spirit. He generates eternal values of love, peace, hope and wisdom that do not always conform to the ever-changing values of this world, but which can fill us instead with eternal bliss. 

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