My Filing Cabinet
Are you ready to go at once straight into
heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to
say it! Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping tonight at
once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house? G.V. Wigram
When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures
on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will
always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die.
No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our
investment strategy. Randy Alcorn
What folders do you have in your filing
cabinet? I like to think of my brain as a tiny filing cabinet. Tiny because there is not much up there I
often think. Anyway, there are all these
files stored up there called brain cells.
God is so amazing. He created us
with something in our head that resembles an over large raisin but it has the
capability to store endless amounts of information.
What do you store in the filing cabinet God
gave you? Do you fill it with thoughts
of heaven or thoughts of the Father? Do you have a file called Scripture where
you return often and like an often used book, the pages are worn and
frayed? I have a Do For Others file but
sometimes I don’t open it as often as I should.
Then there is the Love Others file.
There is also one filed under “G” that is my Giving file. Then there is a Joy file.
Too many times I spend more time on other
files that are not so important. There
is the Me file and sometimes this file is overflowing. This one is broken down into categories since
I sometimes use this one more than the others.
It has a section on Its All About Me.
Under this section there are subcategories of How to Make Money, How to
Spend Money and How to Keep Up With the Neighbors. Then there is another section on Being First
and Winning.
I’ve come to the conclusion that my filing
cabinet is filled with a lot of junk that needs to be shredded. If I would just clean out the junk there
would be more room for the good stuff.
It never fails to amaze me when we do events,
how we touch people’s lives by small gestures. We had a young woman who was a
vendor at one of our events. She set up
a booth right next to us and we spoke casually throughout the day. Near the end of the event she came over and
made this statement: “I waited until the end of the day to tell you this. I wanted to tell you that I lost my sister to
cancer a year ago and I just wanted to tell you that she loved your
lavender. It was her favorite. It brought her great comfort near the end of
her life.” This young woman had tears in
her eyes as she spoke and she said she just wanted to thank us.
As we talked it struck me that this is what
life is about. These are the
opportunities that each of us has every day to touch someone else’s life. Too many times we are so busy using the “Me” folders
that we ignore the critical ones that have eternal importance. Fill up your
filing cabinet with the good stuff.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, before each event I pray that you will allow me to touch at
least one person’s life for You. You
continue to amaze me because when I pray that You always answer. Thank You for
blessing me with those life changing moments.
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