STORING TREASURES WHERE IT MATTERS

As we grow up, we are taught to be ambitious, fight hard to make a good life for ourselves, make sure you have the best this world has to offer. In pursuit of that, we break our backs; work our fingers to the bone to get our treasure stored up. Some resort to deceit, cruelty, backstabbing you name it; just to make that money, get that man or woman, be in that position and have those things. The bible says a wise man leaves an inheritance for his children so I don’t think there is anything wrong with a little ambition. The bible also said that God will give us the desires of our heart so really, what’s wrong with a little bling. So if God says it’s okay to have the stuff, how is it wrong to chase after the stuff? So looking at all that, when is ambition wrong and displeasing?  why can’t we store treasures for ourselves on earth, party it up while we are here because life is as short as we always say it is.

Well last week I lost a great friend of mine. She was a smart lady, beautiful, had a wonderful husband, lovely little baby girl. Three weeks ago, she was getting ready move into her dream home, her husband just got a transfer closer to home, her baby was now living with her, and the future looked bright. Those things did not just fall on her lap, she worked hard for what she had, it was time for her to reap the reward of all her troubles and hard work. Then she got sick; we went to visit her at hospital and chatted as always, girl stuff. She looked fine, she was her old funny self, I forgot to pray for her. At home cell, the Holy Spirit just nudged me to pray for her, I did just then I got a message that she’s back in ICU. It hit me that I’m not sure if she’s born again. I had been inviting her to church but I never asked if she was born again. I guess I took for granted that she’d still be here, she was so young.

There are two factors in this thing. She stored all this treasure for herself and she never got to enjoy the fruits of her labour. I wonder if she stored any treasure where she is now. I knew the truth but I was so concerned with the worldly fun I had with her that I ignored that I was commissioned. I  lost the treasure that is her, that I could have stored for myself in heaven, because in heaven the currency is not monetary, material or status but people, I had an opportunity and I didn’t use it, I guess I lost that treasure.

My point is, this world is but a vapour, what it has to offer is temporary, sometimes we get so preoccupied with it and its treasure when God clearly said in Matthew 6 that We must not store our treasures on earth where they can be stolen or destroyed, but store them in heaven where we can have them for eternity. The bible also makes an example in Luke 12:16-20 about the man who worked hard and thought he would enjoy his fruits only to die and leave it. In Luke 12:31 Jesus ends by saying what we should be seeking is the Kingdom of God, and then we won’t have to chase after all these other things. The whole chapter 12 in Luke is clear on that.

So friends, what are you doing, where are you storing your treasure, is it in this temporary vapour world or in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them?

INTIMATELY INTIMATE

Intimacy, communion, fellowship...How many times have you heard these words at church, in magazines or sometimes in social circles? Have you ever wondered what they mean to you?

In Genesis3:16 God said to Eve, you will always want to please your husband and he’ll lord over you. As women we have been designed to crave intimacy with the most “important” man in our lives. So as per design most of us will search, hunt or even beg for that intimacy from men. When we are young our father and older brothers are the centre of our lives, we follow them around hug and kiss them every chance we get, be at their beckoning because we were designed to yearn for that intimacy. Unfortunately not all women have the luxury of fathers and older brothers, so we reach out to anything resembling a man around us, yearning for that male intimacy that we believe will make everything alright.

Sadly some of the men we serve and fuss over do not reciprocate the love and attention we give; they abuse and take advantage of our yearning to serve and be intimate with them. Some men do give us the intimacy though we later learn that, their intimacy is not quite it. Some of us go as far as going from one man to another in search of that intimacy we so direly desire. All that is really in vain since it seems as though no man can really entirely fulfil our deep, “bottomless” pit of love or intimacy.

In John 3:16 (irony in the 3:16) God is said to love us so much that He sent His Son to take away the sin of the world. Lifting the curse he put on Adam, I believe by doing that He also lifted the curse in Genesis 3:16 over woman. I believe that means He would have the solution to our “bottomless pit” need for intimacy with man. In doing so He would be the solution to our need to serve, be loved and get intimate. How so you may ask? I believe by being the only man who can fulfil our need for intimacy, by us serving Him instead of man and Him being our Lord; in return we’d receive the intimacy- deep intimacy that only He can give. As He said to the woman in John 4:10-18, He has water that we can drink and never thirst again. We know that, that woman’s greatest need or rather thirst was intimacy: the woman went through five husbands and still could not find the intimacy she so desired.

I am not saying don’t serve or get intimate with your husband, by all means do. It is one of God’s greatest pleasures to see man and woman unite that way. Even before the curse God instructed man in Genesis 2:24 to cleave to His wife and in verse 18 He promised Him a Helper in a wife.

My point therefore is if we,  as women seek intimacy- real intimacy then, like the Samaritan Woman, we will not find it in man but in Jesus Christ who will give us so much intimacy that we would never thirst again.

WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE

I know Im not the smartest person on earth but some times i believe i come close and there are a couple of things i know for sure....
The main thing i know is that God is alive, He reigns as supreme King of everything that exists. i know that Jesus Christ is His first begotten Son and that He died for us over 2000 years ago on a cross so that all our sins would be forgiven if we only believe that He did and accept Him as what He is.
I know that i love Him and He loves me and I know that i would not be able to really live this life fully if i do not look to Him to guide me thru it.
I know that i am a great teacher, I'm good at singing, acting and dancing. i know that i can use that to help people know some of the things i know.
I know that marriage is a gift from God that i must treasure with everything in me, i know that God gave me a husband to love and be loved by for the rest of our natural lives until one of us dies.
I also know that everything i have that is good i got from God
I now that His plans for me are only positive
I know that someday my life adventure will come to a conclusion and Ill understand why everything happened the way it did, so i am very observant and it helps me to notice a lot of things that are already coming together, because I already come to understand why i had to go through some things i went through.

So because of all the things i know, i dont regret anything that went on in my almost thirty years on earth and I live life to explore, learn and teach. i am looking forward to sharing my experiences in my almost normal life as a Christian, wife, friend, sister, daughter, daughter in law, sister in law, niece,cousin, leader, teacher and someday mother.

Im ready for this, i hope you all are so lets go.