Gary Rich (19 Dec 2006)
"Heaven's Millionaires"


Have you ever dreamed of being really rich, like owning a million dollars. Most people i know have dreamed at sometime in their lives of being a millionaire. Ready for this, as a Christian believer in Jesus Christ you can be a millionaire in Heaven. God has put in place throughout the Bible an Eternal Investment Plan. Whereby you can spend your earthly life now investing in Eternity. You can be making regular deposits into your eternal bank account in Heaven. You can send the money you make now on ahead. Jesus said to store your "treasures" in heaven where they will last forever, not on earth. This is an investment plan that beats any earthly IRA or 401k plan. These are temporary, eternal investments last forever. And God's interest rate is a hundredfold return
 
We are God's money managers. He wants us to invest our money in His Kingdom. He tells us he's keeping track of every cup of cold water we give the needy in his name. He promises us he will reward us in heaven because we help the poor and needy who cannot pay us back for what we do for them. We can buy up shares in God's Kingdom We can invest in eternity everytime we give a meal to a homeless person, lead a lost soul to Christ, do an act of kindness, volunteer in a homeless shelter, serve in a church ministry, give our money to evangelistic and Christian ministries, support Church mission outreaches, etc
 
We tend to forget that earth is not our home, so we waste our lives pouring ourselves and our money into what will go up in smoke. Meanwhile , God offers us the opportunity to experience a down payment of joy-the delight that comes today in doing what you know God wants, and anticipating hearing Him say to you in Heaven - " well done, good and faithful servant"
 
The ultimate joy a Christian believer can have besides leading someone to Christ is the joy of making wise and generous eternity-impacting choices with their money and possessions. Jesus said in Matthew 6:19-24  " do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven". Jesus invites you to choose your treasury, will you invest your treasures on earth and lose them when you die ? Or will you invest your treasures in heaven, where they will last for eternity
 
We will all be held accountable for what we do in this life, including what we do with our money. If we are generous with our possessions and faithful in our service, Jesus will reward us beyond our imagination. Bible prophecy and current world events in the Middle-East are all pointing towards the soon return of Jesus Christ. Be a wise Christian and invest your time and resources into eternity, and very soon you will be appearing before Jesus Himself at the Judgement Seat of Christ where you will hear Him say, " well done thy good and faithful servant " !!!
 
 
have a blessed day in Christ Jesus,  Gary