#Possessions: You Can’t Take
Them with You
As I lay on the couch, my puppy perched above me on a
pillow, a blanket nestled around me, the wind lashed at the trees outside.
Without reason a wind tunnel swept under my carport and blew the roof right
off. In one second, much of my roof was destroyed, my car had shingles and
drainpipes on it, and everything in my storage shed got drenched from the
torrential rain. In 5 second, everything in the front of my house was gone.
Ten years before that, I sat in my front room playing the
piano. Again the wind lashed out at my windows. I could feel the pressure
almost break them. I opened the curtain to see outside. Porch chairs, trees,
and plants swirled in funnels swiftly down the street. I rushed to the bathtub.
In about a minute, all became silent. As I walked outside, everything from my
side of the street had mangled the opposite side of the street. Roofs were
blown off, houses damaged, trees uprooted, and devastation lay waste all
around. I just a minute.
Children have a tendency to take possession of all the gifts
you give them. At some ages they simply won’t share. “Mine!” they say.
Adults tend to want to help them understand that the toy is
for sharing, even though it may have been given to you. But, it is from the
deepest part of the ego that the soul longs to take possession of objects.
When you buy a brand new car, your biggest fear becomes the
first ding or dent. You park it in remote places to protect your new ego pride.
Yet, you go to your doctor’s appointment and park on the street. While the
doctor treats you a hailstorm passes through. You come back to your brand new
car with it now looking like it has a bad case of the mumps. Nothing keeps us
from maintaining the personal possession law. Spirit will always show us that
what appears to be ours on this earth, we truly borrow from God.
If this remains true, then why do we hold so tightly to the
possessions we work hard for and the accolades and honors we achieve? I
remember a time, when I first began in the performing arts, how much I enjoyed
getting applause and standing ovations. The ego thrives in this environment,
which is often why artists can become egotistical. But it doesn’t take long for
anyone to know that possessions are just things. They hold no spiritual value,
only worldly value, and simply can’t buy you peace. If you want peace, you have
to let go of the value you put on your ego life and take complete possession of
your spiritual life and goals.
23And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you,
it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of
God." 25When
the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, "Then who
can be saved?"…
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The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
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