Haven't thought much about this lately, but the bright, shiny pennies in the top row will eventually
become like the ones in the bottom. And I seem to remember the a dollar bill only lasts two years (well, it might be longer than that, but you get the idea). The concept of money has been around for a long, long time and we accept it as just a "fact of life", but it is a dangerous one! When getting more and more and more (than you really need) becomes a way of life, it is indicative of a disease- a heart disease!! Jesus puts it this way...
Matthew, Chapter 6 (WEB)
19 “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. 25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
27 “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? 28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
Trust in God, you don't need to worry about your future, God will help you obtain what you really need. Question: how much treasure have you stored for heaven? Just sayin...
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