The Foolish Man: No Store of Eternal Treasure

                             By A. W. Tozer

 But God said unto him. Thou fool, this night thy soul
 shall be required of thee; then whose shall these
 things be?                                      Luke 12:20
 

        Many of us are forgetting the caution of the Lord
 Jesus that we ought not to set our hearts on earthly
 things. He warned that there is a very real danger
 involved: the same heart of man that was made to
 commune with God and hold fellowship with the Divine
 Trinity, to soar away to worlds unknown and behold
 God upon His throne, that same heart may be locked up
 in a bank vault or in a jewelry box or somewhere else
 here on earth!

        Jesus gave us the example of the foolish man who
accumulated corn, naively telling his soul to rest because
he had many barns, and lots and lots of corn. Jesus
reminded him that he had to die, and his store of corn,
which had a legitimate and proper value on earth, could
do him no further good because he had neglected the
higher values. He had no store of eternal treasures laid
up above!

        If we are wise, we will transmute any unit of goods or
wealth upwards to another level of value, and the same
for our talents and gifts and abilities, mind and strength
and nervous energy.

       Our faithful missionaries do this, for the ultimate
values they seek are the heathen, headhunters, pagans
turning to Jesus Christ, putting away their idols and
their sins and believing in Jesus with bright, shining
faces singing the gospel and going to heaven, one by
one.

       These are the true values the wealth of human
beings, translated and changed and purified by the grace
of God!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.