"Uncomparable"

"A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked." (Psalms 37:16) If you ever wonder how much you will leave behind when you die, you can rest assure that it will be everything that you own; you are not going to take anything with you; naked you came into the world, and naked will you leave; that is unless you are clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ! There is really nothing that can compare to having Jesus Christ in our life, because with out Him we are lost and condemned, without hope and weary, poor and needy; with Christ we have riches that far exceed anything that this earth has to offer, and a hope that nothing this world has can compare to. Simply put; we have something greater than all the treasures of this earth, because all that is here will soon pass away, but what we have in Jesus Christ will remain for ever and ever. James has a few words to say about those that count upon their riches for security, and that make wealth their god, as he calls them out for having trusted in wealth, a wealth that corrupted. In James 5:1-3, he writes, "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days." Pretty powerful stuff, yet something that those who enjoy their riches never think about; that is until their last days, and then all their riches do nothing to bring them peace about dying, and there is no way to use them beyond the grave. Yet, for those of us that are in Christ, the closer we get towards death, the more glorious our treasures become, and the more wealthy we see ourselves being, because our wealth is waiting on the other side of death; there is nothing that compares with that... "For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." (2 Corinthians 5:1-4)