Today in A Year with the Church Fathers, St John Chrysostom tells us about storing up treasure in heaven. And we've heard about this for the last several days. But he says something new.
He says that we should store our treasure in heaven not just so that it's safe from rust and decay, but because it will yield a great and abundant crop. That's one metaphor. It's like we're planting seeds in heaven, and we'll one day see what they grow.
Another metaphor is that we are depositing our cash in heaven, and it will earn interest. In either case, we won't just find the treasures we secured in heaven waiting for us... we will find much more. We'll find what those treasures produced.
We can catch a glimmer of what that means when we consider what it means to save a person's life. You not only save them, but you allow them to have children, who then have children, and so forth until you've not only saved one man but you've enabled thousands to live.
We don't know what all awaits us in heaven. Eye hasn't seen and ear hasn't heard. God has been preparing a place for us for a very long time... Between the treasures we have saved, the riches they've produced, and the wonders He has created just for us....
We don't want to miss it.
God, thanks for giving us so much to look forward to.
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Amen
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