Dreaming of a new Rolex?

I was listening to the radio today while driving. A commercial for a jewelry store came on asking if you had ever dreamed of owning a Rolex watch. I can honestly say that I never have. I vividly remember as a 11 or 12 year old boy looking at a sales brochure for the new Honda dirt bike lineup and oh how I longed for a brand-new Honda XR dirt bike! I could rattle off the engine size, tire size, horsepower and various other specifications no problem. I was driving today on my way to see my Uncle Bill who is in a retirement home. As I sat there and then driving home, I could not help but remember how the commercial and those marketing people tried their best to make me want that new Rolex. What good is the Rolex or the dirt bike as you lay in a bed sick? What worth is a 10 thousand dollar watch you can barely read any more. What good is the millionaire’s dollars at the end of his life? I don’t need to answer. You already know the answer. The older we get the more we treasure the important and loose interest in the worthless. My Uncle Bills quick wit and knack for answering a question in German are no longer evident but it was good to talk about a few family memories. Scripture warns us of the man who built bigger barns in which to keep his stuff. Barns that someday you won’t be able to walk to or open and eventually others will empty as your gone. The barns aren’t eternal. The Rolex is not eternal. The new shiny dirt bike is not eternal. You do however have the opportunity to build something eternal while you walk this earth. God is allowing you the choice to spend time building the body of Christ. An eternal group of Christians God will use to fulfill his purposes in heavenly places. The knowledge we gain here from our study rightly divided is an eternal investment that will pass the testing of the judgment seat. Seems to me that God’s word sitting in your lap starts to become more and more precious and so many of the other things just take up space in our lives. If time is as precious as we think, shouldn’t we be spending much of it on the eternal? It’s never too late to start, but how important it is to start early building an eternal investment rather that one you will leave here on earth. Marketers are experts at convincing you of a need, then selling you on the product they created to fill the need they created. God desires you to invest in his purpose. His purpose in this dispensation is to build a body. How I wish I could convince more people to invest.