Tending To Treasures

Tending To Treasures “Why should I give the house back to you now? I took care of the property while you were gone.” “What was yours is now mine! I can’t help it if you didn’t get the news of her death!” “I’ll have to take everything back. I left it in your care to enjoy but you neglected to do what I asked for in return.” Selfishness will not earn authentic compensation. Vengefulness will never reap a true prize. Self-interest will not bring genuine reward or ownership. Earnestly return to others what rightfully belongs to them. With love go the extra mile to cherish, value and work for the abundance and fruitfulness of another. Take pleasure in the blessing of a gift that lasts a moment, an indulgence that continues for years, or a bequest that follows a lifetime. How you mind modest treasures on earth will tell much of how you treasure the gifts in Heaven. Your Father in Heaven knows your heart. Unselfishly tend to the things that belong to others and return to them their treasures swaddled with a bow of love. Mark 12:1-12 Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. 'A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watch-tower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted. Then he sent another, and that one they killed. And so it was with many others; some they beat, and others they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son." But those tenants said to one another, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours." So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this scripture: "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes"?' When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.