Moth and Rust

A friend of mine texts me, with eager anticipation of my jealousy and envy, that he received a MacBook Pro this Christmas. He had spent the better part of 2008 trying to convince his father that it was absolutely nessesary for ministry (for he too is a church planter). "For ministry," he says; hmmm?

My response: moth and rust, Joe Bell, moth and rust.

Matthew 6:19-21 is the antidote to the season of the gift vomit. Clothes, gadgets, candy and food. Will it ever stop, I sometimes wonder while I put on 5lbs of chocolate covered pretzels. I am guilty of sometimes treasuring earthly things even though I know that these things will fall victim to the moth, rust and thieves of this world. Heavenly treasures have no such worries and this leads us to a natural deduction: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Here is a chance to pause and consider what Christ is saying. I have asked myself, what is a heavenly treasure? The only answer I keep coming back to is articulated in our main value: the centrality of the gospel. May this season spur you to keep Christ central and his message clear.

I sometimes have to fight back the other question I have...will the MacBook Pro be in heaven...