“Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:20-21

I have stuff! LOTS of stuff! So much stuff that I have nowhere to put it except for whatever empty space happens to be available when I am done with my stuff! Being a reasonable guy, that space is where I put it. But when I need or want it again, I can’t remember where that was! I need a place for my stuff! Shelves!? Yea!!! Those!

I was given plenty of 2×4’s by someone who had the same idea, but didn’t get around to doing it. I’ve had them for a while. The trouble is, they’re just laying around taking up space until I get around to building them. The trouble with THAT is, what do I do with my stuff while I’m building the shelves over where my stuff is now?!

As I was rearranging and organizing to build shelves to rearrange and organize, I came across some stuff I had forgotten about. A very full case of files from when I was a Scoutmaster, over 20 years ago. Which was about the last time I looked at it!

I was about to just throw it in the garbage… hesitated… looked inside. BIG mistake!

That bag, along with boxes of other stuff… is my life! Looking through it, I remembered the thousands of hours and money I invested in kids… mine and others. Then there’s the tools and materials I use, and still need, to maintain the investment in my home. I can’t just throw those away because there is still a need! So… shelves!

I realize that someday I will be dead and other folks will go through my stuff without the same memories or needs. I’m pretty sure they’ll chuck it all in a trash bin to make room for their stuff! Then I remembered this verse and wondered, “Does Jesus have shelves in Heaven?

If He commands me to store my treasure in Heaven, just where does He put it all when I send it on? Does it take up space? Can it be sorted through and reused? These are silly questions I have no answers for, but they do make me think about the things I store up there.

God is in the People Business. Because of that, whatever I do, with and for people, are the treasures God receives and stores on my behalf. If they are treasures, then they will be worth holding onto and remembering. My job is to send them ahead. God’s job is to store them. How He does it, I need not know? Maybe HE has shelves too!

Are YOU sending anything valuable ahead of you to Heaven?