For the third time Mr. Jenkins had to do a repair job on that piece of cement. The first time a lady stepped right into it. The second time some children had scraped some of the soft concrete into their little buckets.
Now it was all messed up again! Mr. Squirrel had decided to bury his acorns beneath the soft cement.
Mr. Jenkins chased Squirrel away, and threw out the acorns. “Three times and out!” said Mr. Jenkins, as he smoothed out the cement with his trowel. But he was thinking what would have happened if the acorns had remained there. Squirrel would have returned later, perhaps late in the year, and would have found that he could no longer dig up his acorns. The soft cement would, be as hard as a rock.
Squirrel thought he had found a good hiding place for his nuts, but he was mistaken! He had put his treasure where he would never see it again!
The Lord Jesus tells those who trust in Him, to lay up treasure in heaven, not on the earth. On earth thieves can break in and steal, and other things can come in and spoil. But in heaven all is safe.
He is our treasure in heaven now, and we can lay up treasure there. Everything done for Him, any little service for His own or to others in love to Him, even every thought of Him, He puts to our account up there. No one can take it from us; it is all in His safekeeping. What a wonderful Saviour and Friend Jesus is!
ML-10/16/1977