Treasure In Heaven

By faith Moses . . . [esteemed] the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Hebrews 11:24, 26

Scott Adams, creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip, creates his cartoons from his own experience as a corporate cubicle dweller: “I don’t think I’ll ever forget what it feels like to sit in a cubicle and realize . . . everything you did today will become unimportant in the next [corporate] reorganization.”

That’s not to say, of course, that working at a corporate job is not without eternal significance. However, it does highlight the fact that every aspect of our lives has both a temporal and an eternal aspect. And it’s learning to invest our lives—our time, talent, and treasure—for eternity that is the goal of life.

At work, seeing a coworker come to Christ through your witness adds an eternal dimension to what may be a mundane job. And investing the earnings from your job in the lives of a missionary family engaged in cross-cultural evangelism adds an eternal perspective to temporal work. In how many ways is eternity benefiting from your investments of time, talent, and treasure?

The reason you never see a hearse pulling a trailer is because investing in heaven must be done now, not later.