I was driving home from church today and passed an estate auction.   I’ve seen a couple as I was out and about this weekend, but the one I passed today just got me thinking.  What is a typical estate auction?  Somebody died and all their stuff is being auctioned off.  All their earthly possessions up for sale to the highest bidder.  All the work they did on their job, all the money they earned to buy these things, and it’s now being sold off.  A vast portion of this person’s life and ambitions just left behind.

Realize that all your possessions are fading treasure.  Here today, gone tomorrow.  You can’t take it with you…

1Ti 6:6-16 ” But godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.  But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.  People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.  But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.  Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.  In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time–God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords,  who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.”

Mat 6:19-21  “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.   But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.   For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”