Hear, O Israel. To be holy, chosen, the one the Lord has set His love upon, is to be an heir. Who would want a selfish, self-indulgent heir? What we do with the inheritance we have here on earth is how we are trained for full eternal inheritance. Children are an inheritance from the Lord. The single thing we have is attention, the mind. Everything else is stuff. Setting the mind to stuff is the path to destruction. "but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful". Man, it's easy to get tangled up with stuff. It's understandable--we can see it. What is unseen though is the real treasure. Listening to Deuteronomy 6 & 7 this morning, it lands again that these handmade gods aren't at all what we are dealing with, yet in order to get to the bottom of fear, we have to acknowledge that while we aren't carving and plating wood, we get tangled up with stuff faste
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