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