Bishop Roe told it so much better.
In Sunday School, he told the story about a man that started collecting earthly treasures. He would attend auctions, garage sales, estate sales, and any place that would sell little pieces of gold or precious stones, etc. Each time, he would return home his wife would question the wisdom of this after all he would take it up into the attic and put it in a small box where it was never seen. After each time of being criticized he would say to his wife, "Don't worry, when I die I'll stop by the attic on my way to heaven and pick it up." Finally, the day came when he was called to the other side. After the funeral services and the burial the wife came home and remembered the box in the attic. Hurrying, she climbed the stair and went into the attic. Sure enough there was the little box. Opening it, she found all the small treasures of the past years still there. Looking up to heaven she quietly prayed, "I knew it. He should have put this box in the basement."
So often in life we place our efforts towards the riches of the world and not the things that really count.
I need to ask the question the rich young man ask our Lord and Savior, "Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" Mark10:17
