“An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday. The woman told Army Radio that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise on Monday and threw out the old one, only to discover that her mother had hidden her life savings inside…When she went to look for the mattress, it had already been taken by garbage men, she said. Subsequent searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing. The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel. Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, told the radio station that his staff was helping the woman, saying she appeared “totally desperate.” He said the mattress was hard to find among the 2500 tons of garbage arriving at the site every day. He said he increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters at bay” (“Woman Mistakenly Junks Mattress With $1 Million Inside,” Fox News, 6-10-09).
Where do you store your treasures? Are you keeping them in a safe place? Consider the counsel of Jesus regarding your valuables: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).
Most people would view storing a million dollars in a mattress as a very poor choice. But when it comes to protecting what is truly important in life, Fort Knox is no more secure than a lumpy old mattress. Only God can protect your investments for eternity. Let me encourage you to entrust your treasures to the One Who “…is able to guard what (you) have entrusted to Him until that day” (1 Timothy 1:12).
God loves you!
Mike
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