What is your life?

 Life. We can get caught up in it - making the most irrelevant seem most important...whether good or bad...prosperity or sufferings. But "what is [our] life? For it is but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" (James 4:14).

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     We all go through struggles and hardships just as Jesus said would happen in Luke 6:46-49. Whether you are built on the rock or have been built without a foundation the floods will come! But let us strive to finish the race (Philippians 3:13-14). For Paul "considered that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us" (Romans 8:18). This truth is why Jesus told us to "not lay up for [ourselves] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for [ourselves] treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal" (Matthew 6:19-20).

      What is the Kingdom? And what does it have to do with my life (and my stuff)? Jesus said, in Matthew 13:44, that the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.