05/08/2025
GLIMPSE OF GLORY DEVOTIONAL.
The Daily Word Searchlight - DWS.
Tuesday, 05/08/25.
Subject: WHEN MATERIAL QUEST SHALL NO LONGER COUNT.
RECALL VERSE: Matt 16:26.
"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his sou?"
First, materialism is a mirage. Everything anyone has ever piled up will melt away.
Why is it so hard to realize that "The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire?" (2Pet 3:10,12).
That shiny new car, newly acquired house, dishwasher, efficient ridding lawn mower, fat bank deposit - it will all melt away someday. And there is nothing we can do to prevent them from melting along.
Since everything is going to be destroyed, how then ought we to live?
I read the story of a certain rich man's death where a Mosey guest asked the dead man's friend,
"How much would you say he left behind?"
The friend answered,
"Everything."
How true!
If the Lord comes it all melts, and if you die first, all goes back into the box. Like the end of a monopoly game, you can't take it with you.
The ungodly quest, especially amongst the youth populace of the present age is a serious call for concern. Ungodly quest for material things is like a drink that never satisfies. If you ask the man earning N800,000,00 a year how much it will take to satisfy him, he will say, One Million. Ask the man earning One Million per annum, he will say, Two Million. On and on the quest goes.
For a life built on the acquisition of material wealth only is never satisfied. It is like drinking salt water. The more you drink, the thirstier you get. Materialistic living is a mirage that promises satisfaction it never can deliver.
Set your priorities right. Should God bless you with the material things of this life, don't let them become your little gods, that you forget the Giver. Set your affection on things above. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," (Mtt 6:21).
Ref Texts:
Ps 62:10; Mtt 6:21; Lk 12:20-21,34; 2Pet 3:10-12; 2Tim 6:17-19.
MEDITATION: Pro 23:5(NKJV).
"Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven."
DECLARATION!
Lord, I will not make material things a priority above You.
Reader Digest - May this Tuesday turn your wishes into reality.
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DWS - Enriching the spirit,
Profiting the soul.
Apst Rev'd Dr. D. U. Tom
The Lord's under-shephered.