Ep 67: Worthless Cardboard

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This is episode 67.
Worthless Cardboard.

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Let's go to church.
Are we there yet?

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Recently, I've been selling off
a lot of the nostalgic things

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from my childhood.
You know, an action figure here,

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a comic book there, maybe a
trading card or two.

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And if you grew up like me in
the 90s, chances are you had a

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good stash of Pokémon cards.
I had a stockpile so I pulled

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out my old binder the other day
and I was looking for the rare

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cards so that I could sell them,
but they were nowhere to be

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found.
I spent weeks trying to figure

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out where they could have gone.
Had I perhaps been burgled in

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the late 90s by some card hungry
ruffian?

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Had I given them away and just
forgotten about it?

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Or did I hide them somewhere and
just lose them over the years?

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But then I remembered I had an
old fire safe in the basement

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that I had lost the keys to and
I hadn't opened in probably

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about a decade.
Surely, I thought, that is where

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my treasure resided.
And the more I thought about

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getting that safe open, the more
sure I was that great riches lay

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inside.
After all, some of those cards

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sell for thousands of dollars,
and I went through the trouble

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of keeping them for over 26
years.

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Surely by now they're worth a
well.

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I called a locksmith or two, I
tried picking the lock myself,

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and eventually I resorted just
to drilling it out.

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And I was right.
The elusive Pokémon cards were

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there.
But much to my dismay, when I

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began to research their value,
well, let's just say I'm not

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going to be retiring anytime
soon.

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These things that I had
foolishly gotten my hopes up

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for, this treasure, these 20
something year old pieces of

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cardboard?
Relatively worthless.

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Certainly they didn't hold the
value that I had put upon them,

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but isn't that ultimately the
truth for all of our worldly

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possessions?
And sure, that might be

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depressing to us on some level,
but the old saying is true.

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We can't take it with us.
And those things, they are so

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fleeting and they just aren't as
valuable as we think they are.

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But man, don't we spend so much
of our lives obtaining and then

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clinging on to them?
You know, I held on to those

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worthless pieces of paper for
almost 30 years, thinking of the

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wealth that they might someday
bring to me.

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And I'm not too proud of this,
but I spent a not too

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insignificant time mourning the
realization of their

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worthlessness.
And I suppose that makes the

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words of Jesus in Matthew
chapter 6 all the more

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insightful and applicable to our
lives.

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Matthew chapter 619 through 21
says do not store up for

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yourselves treasures on earth
where moth and rust destroy and

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where thieves break in and
steal, but store up for

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yourselves treasures in heaven
where neither moth nor rust

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destroy, and where thieves do
not break in or steal.

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For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.

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You see, Jesus knows what's
important, what we should truly

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treasure, what we should spend
our lives seeking and slaving

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over, the things that we should
cling to.

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And it's not some worthless
pieces of cardboard or gold or

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jewels.
It's a home with Him in heaven

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and friends, nothing could be
more valuable than that.

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Well, those are my thoughts for
your Sunday morning drive.

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Now it's time to hear yours.
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Our discussion questions for

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this week are what do you
treasure and do you put more

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value on things of this world or
the things of the next?