Have you ever seen a hearse pulling a Uhaul?k

You’ve never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul.

That’s a well-worn cliché, but it still lands a punch. Our possessions cannot follow us.

The apostle Paul made that point abundantly clear in his first epistle to Timothy: “We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either” (1 Timothy 6:7).

We all die. Cars break down. Houses crumble. Jewelry fades and tarnishes. None of the possessions this world so desperately craves can last. What does last, what has eternal value, is what you believe.

Your faith, not your paycheck, is the ultimate test of eternal riches. No amount of money can buy your way into heaven. Neither can good works, rituals nor merely trying to be good! The good news is that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Jesus died on the cross and is calling on you to repent and believe. He is calling on you to confess Him as Lord and become His slave. Only through faith in Christ can anyone gain access to vast and eternal blessings of heaven.

“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. . . . I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:1–6)

True eternal riches are only available through belief in Christ. If we take Him at His Word, we can be sure that He is preparing an everlasting place for us to dwell securely in His presence. By contrast, those who put their faith in wealth and possessions are tragically living their best life now—as their doomed philosophy can only usher them into the torment of hell.

The only things of lasting value—the only eternally secure riches—are found in heaven. We must join the apostle Paul and set our hearts on the future our Savior has prepared and secured for us.

“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ.”(Philippians 3:7–9)

Adapted from gtyblog