I love the image of Jesus riding on a white horse on the glorious and victorious day of resurrection, but Jesus also has these wonderfully tender moments where he comes with gentleness to remind us that God delights in giving us the Kingdom. It's not something we pry grudgingly out of God's hands -- God opens his arms and pours love into us, so that we might have a treasure store beyond imagining. We think about wealth and riches in terms of dollars and cents, but Jesus is reminding us that no matter what we do, we'll one day surpass the world where that is useful to us. So why not choose to set our hearts on a more permanent treasure, one that cannot be stolen or taken from us? If I told you that you'd live for a million years and you could choose between a treasure that was good for a hundred years or a treasure that was good for a million, which would you choose? The world will convince us that we're only going to live for a hundred, but Jesus is reminding us that there is a life beyond this one, more real than this one, and we ought to think about investing for that Kingdom more than this one. That doesn't mean we should ignore this world, but when we choose which is first in our hearts... may we choose wisely.
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