Precious Moments Joni and Friends Daily Devotional August 20, 2014 Dear Friends, Precious Moments Make the most of every opportunity. Colossians 4:5 I read in the papers that the owner of a small original by Van Gogh had put the painting on the auction block in New York hoping it would bring twelve million dollars. When the highest bid climbed only to eight million, the owner withdrew the painting. Van Gogh would probably drop dead again if he were alive to see such a thing. Some people call a million-dollar painting, a Mercedes-Benz, or a dress with a price tag of over six hundred dollars an investment. But I say: If you cant pack it into your luggage when you step into the other side of eternity, please dont call it a lasting treasure. Now Im not poking fun at your great-grandmothers silver service that has been handed down in your family over the years. Im just asking for a little perspective here. Because consider this: Every morning you are handed twenty-four hours free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you could not purchase a single extra hour. So what will you do with this priceless possession? You must use it. And dont forget: Once it is wasted, you cant get it back. One day Van Gogh paintings will peel and crack. The resale value on that Mercedes-Benz will only be a couple hundred dollars. Even silver and gold will perish. So... Build your eternal investment. Pray for an unsaved neighbor. Visit a nursing home. Ask for forgiveness from someone youve offended. Such things can never be auctioned away! _____________________________________ If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.* --Oswald Chambers _______________________________________________________ *Draper, Edythe, Drapers Book of Quotations for the Christian World, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois, 1992, p. 445 Blessings, Joni and Friends joniandfriends.org
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