Thursday, September 20, 2018

Down a Rat Hole


"Devoting a life to material comforts and security and thrills is like throwing money down a rat hole."- John Piper

This hit me and prompted me to write this little ditty:

Down a Rat Hole

You can be generous or you can be greedy
But its tragic if mammon you trust
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy
Or reserve them for  moths and for rust
Flee from those objects of lust

Quit being satisfied with the 2% yields
Of pleasures and all that you please
Invest in the blue-chip, eternal, high-yield,
Divinely insured se-cu-ri-ties.

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.
Choose ease, comfort, and pleasure or heavenly treasure
You can be generous or you can be greedy
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.

If material comforts are your main goal
Security and this week's thrills
That's like throwing money down a rat hole.
Gluttony never fulfills
Life's more than just paying your bills.

To live in luxury satisfies-- never
It is much more blessed to love
More blessed now, and more blessed forever.
So set your mind on -things -a-bove.

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.
Choose ease, comfort, and pleasure or heavenly treasure
You can be generous or you can be greedy
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.

By storing up treasures here and not above
It's everlasting rewards that you spend
But investing a life in the labor of love
Yields joy unsurpassed without end:
An eternal dividend!

Buckets of blessings that never grow old
Returning rewards without measure
So will you be content with your silver and gold
Or will you seek e-ter-nal trea-sure?

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.
Choose ease, comfort, and pleasure or heavenly treasure
You can be generous or you can be greedy
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.

“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. [And thus] provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail”

Luke 12:33, Matthew 6:19–20

Anthony Foster
September 20, 2018



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