I heard a story of a minister who was invited to a very rich farmers house. So he went and they ate and talked for a while. Then the rancher took the preacher and walked up to the highest hill on his ranch. He then pointed towards the West and said "everything you see in that direction I own." He pointed in the East and said "everything you see is mine. "He then pointed in the South and said "everything you see is mine." He then pointed to the north and said "everything you see I worked for with my own hands." The preacher, with hardly a hesitant moment, pointed up and said "but how much do you own in that direction."
We sometimes think that we can own and conquer everything we see and just control completely. But that is not the way it works. Because if you think about it God owns everything and you are just on loan, and if you don't learn to store up treasures in heaven you will be the poorest up there.
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