What are you doing with your stuff?

The bent to keep our “stuff” for ourselves while wanting to indulge in the “stuff” of others starts young.

Do you remember as a child hanging out with another kid … they wanted to play with your toys, which you absolutely did not want to share? BUT, you wanted to play with their toys, which they didn’t want to share. Even at that young age, we want our “stuff” for ourselves, and some of the stuff of others also!

We are so attached to keeping our stuff for ourselves that the self-storage business has grown into a $20 billion industry. That’s right, people pay billions upon billions of dollars annually to rent a place where they can keep their stuff for themselves, even though they aren’t using it! As we “grow up,” we often don’t grow more generous, we still want our stuff for ourselves, along with some of the stuff of others.

That’s an attitude very opposite of what Jesus taught us to have as recorded in Matthew 6:19-21: “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”

What are you doing with your “stuff”? How are you storing up a treasure in heaven? How does what you’re doing with your stuff demonstrate the desires of your heart?

Scotty