Its ONLY Stuff!

Families are losing their homes.

People are losing their automobiles.

Some are being taken in the night by those re-possession guys.

We are seeing boats for sale, cars for sale, vans for sale all along the roads and highways around here. People are trying to sell their "stuff" so they can buy groceries and pay their mortgages.

I was talking to a loved one the other day and he was telling me how he was getting less and less hours at work. He told me he was having to pay his mortgage with his credit cards. WOW. We both agreed that he was headed for big trouble.

But what is he supposed to do? He can't sell. No one is buying.

Times are hard. We all know that. But listen up. Its all just STUFF! Material things that when compared to eternity? Don't really matter. Not really.

Its all just STUFF! Stuff can be replaced. Houses get old and fall down. Cars rust and fall apart. Maybe its time to lighten the load some. Throw some of that "stuff" overboard. Know what I mean? How many headaches do people get worrying about their STUFF.

I read stories about people who are killing themselves because they lost it all in the stock market crash! Man! Brokers jumping out of windows. Grandfather's ending it all because they lost their retirement. None of it is going to last anyway!

We need to invest in things that LAST! Things that last FOREVER!

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6: 21

Don't sweat it, people! Its all just STUFF!

Love you all so very much!

Pastor Mark

Jeremiah 31:3