“Get your trowel and check the new concrete at the bottom of the steps,” Grandpa called out to me from the house. It had been a busy day of pouring concrete. The steps had been one of the last things we had worked on.
When I looked at the steps, I saw that a patch of the new, wet concrete had been all dug up. As I smoothed out the spot again, my trowel uncovered an acorn. Digging around with the end of the trowl, I found four of them!
When I told Grandpa about it, he laughed and said that he had seen Mr. Squirrel digging in the new concrete. That is why he had asked me to check the steps. Mr. Squirrel had found the soft concrete, busily dug holes in it, and then buried his acorns.
Smoothing out the concrete, I thought about what would have happened if the acorns had stayed there. Mr. Squirrel would have returned later and found the concrete as hard as rock. He thought he had found a good hiding place. But he had buried his acorn treasures, causing a lot of damage and he would never find them again!
The Lord Jesus said, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth... but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” Matthew 6:19,2019Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: (Matthew 6:19‑20). Some people are just like Mr. Squirrel. They only worry about “treasures” for themselves in this life. They work hard for food, clothing, cars, houses and other things which are not bad in themselves. But they become so concerned about these things that they do not think about God.
Where are your treasures? Are they in heaven, because you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour? Or are they only on earth, because you are still a lost sinner? Think about it — Where are your treasures?
ML-12/06/1987