There's A Branch Near You

From: Joe Gibbs' Game Plan For Life

Matthew 6:20 "Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal."

We understand the part about not storing up "treasures on earth." (verse 19) We get it that we can't take our stuff with us into eternity. We never see a hearse pulling a moving van. We know that. But "treasures in heaven." What are those? And how do they become part of our life's purpose?

Because each of us has an eternal soul, one way to store up "treasures in heaven" is by investing your life in other people—in your wife, your children, your work associates and employees, your neighbors, your friends, even people who cross your path in seemingly random fashion. We're not to regard them anymore "from a worldly point of view," as the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:16. We're to see them as a teller window for depositing our time, our attention, our concern, even just a kind "hello" made with deliberate eye contact.

Not every heavenly investment is transacted at church or in some other so-called spiritual setting. Just about anywhere you go, there's a branch near you.