Look up at the sky and not down at the ground, you will be pleasantly surpised by the change that the difference makes on your life, Sure you have to watch where you are going and keep your feet firmly planted on the ground so as you know where you are going, but the heavenly picture of a broad horizon with endless possibilities and skies that go on forever into heaven are much better than trying to dig yourself a hole in the ground or make a life for yourself in the mud rather than in a place where you can be happy. Keep your house clean and tidy of cource, watch after your children when they are playing with toys that can be misguiding.

Look at the stove when you are cooking and don't leave the dishes undone over night. All these little teptaions to just take life easy and leave things for another day, stop our readiness to stay sharpa nd bright and keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and His brilliant mind where God lives in heaven and reigns from above. Look up, not down, give yourslef a chance in life for the best possible conditions, they come form God and not the bank manager. banks may have all the money and they offer you a lovely service but they are really just in the nusiness of making a profit, Have you ever checked the finacial returning proifits of a bank, they are making a lot more money than you. Invest in God for a change and give Him a go for a while, just maybe you money is better off with Him than with the stockmarket to. Invest in the treasures of heaven in things that will last into eternity and not perish here on earth. Work towrds a goal of a better life for everyone and not just your next step up to a better house in a better suburb. Go into the mission field and preach the Gospel.

Try and reach as many people as you can for the Lord, it so much more rewarding than selfish endeavours to succeed in material wealth, winning souls for the kingdom of God is so much ebtter than the lastest Ferrari. Invest your time in poeple and help those who need you more than the things you need yourself. Self satisfaction and gratification is so short lived, that while you think that you are making yourself happy instantaneously you are really on a slow and disturbing path to hell. Rather invest in time resources, ones that lead to heaven and not the other place down there. Look up and look to God. See things clearly and in the right and true perspective, rather than what you can get out of life for yourself. The more you look to God, the more you will see the light in other peoples eyes as well. There are hopes and dreams in many hearts just waiting to be fulfilled, kids with problems from broken homes and people on the street who have no idea where their next meal is coming from. A few dollers here and there in somebody elses pocket will reward you far more than ten hamburgers a week to fill your own stomache.

You will never go hungry if you look to God, you will never starve to death while you are giving to other people. The more you invest in time honoured rewards, the more you secure a place for yourself in heaven. Try asking someone begging on the streets where they have spent the last ten years of there life, show them your example of a better way to live, one that honours God and shows them the love of Jesus. Give generously and even untill it hurts. Better a little love spread around than all the food you want just sitting there waiting in your pantry. I have found a lot of money that has been dropped on the ground, thousands of dollers, because I look down but that does not make me happy when I think of all the silly people that have dropped it. I can put it in the poor box at church, but people need to look up to God and not at the sky while they pass money around.

God is the keeper of all good things and the more we look to Him, the greater our financial stewardship is in His kingdom will be here on earth and then onto and into eternity. God lives in heaven while we are here on earth, we have to live our lives as though we are going to heaven though and not going to stay around here and be on earth forever, however long that takes and however much it costs, we have to choose to pay the price now and give Jesus our lives for an eternal future with Him.