PIling up treasures on Earth or In Heaven?

I've been seeing news about Mozart constantly ever since I visited his living house in Salzburg, Austria. In fact, I'm fascinated by his history and his past works that I wiki-ed about him and found out even more interesting stuff. I began to fall in love with his musics again. Last few days when I opened up this email, an excerpt from Agape Ministries, it was about Mozart and his contributions left in this world. I could not agree enough that we sometimes overlooked the fact that we are so greedy in this world that we want to own everything. We want the best among the others, we want what others don't have and we want all that is superior of others. What could have been our treasures in heaven now wasted on finding riches on earth. Well, it did pretty much change my perspective over certain things now.

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Are you making the world richer or poorer?

S

ome of the world's greatest treasures have been left to us by men who died either penniless or with almost no money. Wolfgang Mozart was one of the world's greatest musicians. The music he wrote nearly two hundred years ago in his native Austria is loved and played everywhere. God gave to him a remarkable power to compose beautiful melodies. Although he died while only thirty-five, he left many, many great works of music. But did he make money? No. He was poorly paid. Also, he was a poor manager in money affairs. When he died in 1791, only the cheapest kind of funeral was held. No friends went to the cemetery to see him buried. Soon the exact location of his grave was forgotten, and today nobody knows really where this great man's body was laid. To make matters worse, he was buried in the pauper's cemetery, that is, in the cemetery set aside by the city for poor people whose families couldn't buy any ground anywhere else. How rich the world is, though, because of Mozart's music!

M

any other great men have died poor after having made our world a better place to live. Surely God does not want us to neglect those we love. Certainly he wants us to provide our families with enough food, clothing, and other necessary things. But we can easily believe, as so many do, that making money and buying things are what God wants us to do most of all. Many people pile up riches and leave the world poorer. They become greedy, selfish, and spoiled. Jesus warned us against the love of money and said it could destroy our souls. Are you making the world richer or poorer? Even if you have no money, you can make it a better place than you found it. "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth . . . but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven."—Matt. 6:19-20.

AGAPE LOVE DIVINE MINISTRIES