I recently purchased an item online and the item arrived broken and unusable. It’s a good things it’s not a very expensive item. But the hassle of filling out the return form as well as returning the package is not commensurate to the refund that I can get. It would have been a waste of time and effort.
It was then that I had this reflection about how many things today seem to have been designed to be disposable. Few are the items that are still designed to last. It’s as though we are not really buying ownership of things, it’s more like we’re merely renting them for a time, a very limited time.
I guess that’s our lesson in investing in things that do not last. Things rot and pass away. We can use them for a time, but we must not expect them to fulfill us forever. Only God can bless us with things that last. Only in heaven can we find happiness that can never be taken away.
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6, WEBBE
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"