"Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you..."

                            -John 6:26, 27

According to Scripture, this life is but a vapor (James 4:14). We are here for only a short time, and then we are swept away into our eternal home. It makes sense, then, that if we are only here for such a brief period of time, that we should do as Jesus said in this passage of Scripture and seek, not after temporal things, but after eternal things.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But 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

The amount of success we experience on this earth, or the level of accomplishment that we may attain to, will be of no value whatsoever when eternity calls our name. That is why we must strive with everything that's within us to make each and every day we are given count for eternity. A thousand years from now, the size of our bank account, or the number of friends that we have, will be nothing more than a faint memory. Thus, we are instructed not to waste time laying up a treasure that is of no lasting value, but instead to lay up our treasure in heaven, "...where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:"

Where is your treasure?