 Have you heard this worldly comment, “He who dies with the most toys wins”? It is not surprising that people think like that when you see how the world is so enthralled with getting the next big thing. People seem to never be satisfied, and they accumulate more and more possessions. In America, we have so many possessions that it is rare to find a two-car garage that you can park one car in, much less two. Do you know what is one of the fastest growing industries? It is storage buildings. Look on almost any 2 block area, and there is a storage building. And if you drive another half a mile, there is a new one being built like that large one on the corner of the freeway east of Sutherlands. So we fill our closets, then our garages, then our outside storage building. Then when the attic is overcrowded, we rent a storage building. I wonder how many really important things are in those buildings? There is a television show where people buy those containers with unpaid rent. Highest bidder gets everything inside for sometimes a few dollars. Some bid over a thousand. So I ask you this. Is the person that dies with the most toys really a winner. I kind of think he is still dead. And boy if you die without knowing Christ your situation just got a whole lot worse. Radio preacher Chuck Swindoll recently said, “I have never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer behind it when they take the body to the graveyard.” Whatever toys, money, or possessions you have when you die go to someone else. There was a fellow in the bible who had a lot of stuff. He had so much that his barns could not even hold all his harvest. Continue reading in PDF: 
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