Grave Clothes Have No Pockets….

In the book of Job it says, “naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return”. This shows us that we come into this world with nothing, and we cannot take anything with us when we leave it. We cannot take our wealth, our possessions, or anything else when we die. If this is true, why do we spend our entire lives trying to gather these things in truck loads? I’ve never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer behind it. And just to let you know, the clothes they bury people in, don’t have pockets in them. Kinda reminds me of the story of a man who begged God to let him take his gold bricks with him when he died. He put them in a duffle bag. When he arrived in Heaven he saw all the valuable jewels and precious metals that were used in designing the structures there. An angel asked the man what he had in the bag. He replied, “my treasure.” The angel replied when he looked into the man’s bag, “you treasure asphalt? The roads here are all paved with gold”. You can’t take it with you when you go, but you can certainly send it ahead by investing in eternal things in people.

16 So don’t be dismayed when the wicked grow richand their homes become ever more splendid.17 For when they die, they take nothing with them.Their wealth will not follow them into the grave. Psalms 49:16-17