About 2 months ago Martha went down into our basement to work out early one morning. Much to her dismay as she stepped onto the carpet, she also stepped into about 3 inches of cold water. She came running into the bedroom to wake me and the kids up to start removing all of our worldly possessions from the water drenched basement. It appears the home we are leasing has an elaborate French drain system that does an excellent job of channeling standing water around the outside of the house into a sump pump in the basement. Unfortunately, when the pump fails, there is a whole lot of water coming in without any place to go!
As we removed our worldly goods from the basement I was thankful that the really important things (like photographs) seemed to largely escape damage. Some school books, etc., were not so fortunate. The take-away is this for us. What is really important? We love our own home and our things. But, really, it is all so perishable. I saw a couple of pieces of furniture and thought, "look how these have aged!" All our wonderful furniture will soon age, get scratched and go out of date. So few things last 20 years, let alone 40 or 50 years.
We want our focus to be on more lasting things ... like people who last for eternity. We were all created to live with God for eternity. Have you thought about Paul's words in Corinthians, that even "faith and hope" will become dated and go into the basement? Only love will remain. Martha and I can "love" our furniture, but it will never return our love. Only people will remain for eternity and return the love given to them.
What are you investing in, good furniture or good people?
Feel free to comment here or send me an email at csonger@new-communitychurch.org
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