Treasures a story of lamentation and hope
21 July 2021 11:13 AM
As I get older I understand more and more why God said not to lay your treasures up on earth where it can get destroyed. I understand why He said where your treasures are there will your heart be also.
If you have read any of my poems you may have run across the (The apple grove). Well that poem was true. I trimmed and took care of the fruit trees and berry bushes and nut trees that were there. Those are fond memories for me. Now all that I took care of there is gone. After I got married and moved back to wv I lived in an old log cabin that uncle steve bought and I half raised my family there until we had to move. While I was there I planted an apple tree for aunt virgie and a magnollia ann tree for my wife and a wisteria vine for myself along with other flowers and trees. And now they are all gone too. My family is seperated and scattered and time is catching up and I look back.....
It seems that every where that I have lived and planted I have had to leave it to someone else who pulled up most everything that I did. I did not do it for a monument to myself I did it for the enjoyment of my family and to leave something good behind that someone else could get enjoyment from. And yet it did not last after I left. I look back and I wonder what was it all for if it was just going to be destroyed after I was gone? I think back and I feel the pain of all the good things being gone and I get a drop of understanding of how God must feel seeing all of the good of creation that He made and folks just came in behind Him and destroyed it.
But there is comeing a day when He will destroy all of the evil works that ruined His creations and will wipe the world and the heavens clean and make it all new and His new kingdom will stand forever and we will stand with Him and enjoy the real treasures that we have laid up in heaven. Where corruption and evil can not exist.
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