Ezekiel 44:28 This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession..
I have watched a couple of episodes of the TV program about hoarders, people who cannot dispose of anything. What they owned, even their trash, is so valuable to them that it ruins their lives, including their relationships with people.
Hoarding is the extreme example of loving things too much, but I think we all have to be careful about this.
It is easy to love things more than I love God.
The priests were God’s representatives to the children of Israel as well as the people’s representatives to God so theirs was a very important task. They needed to be able to be fully attentive to their responsibilities.
For this reason, God wanted them unfettered, unhampered, by things that could distract them.
Possessions have a way of doing that to us. Possessions and inheritances have a way of taking us over if we are not careful.
As a follower of Jesus, I am a member of the "holy priesthood." 1 Peter 2:5 says: "You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
This is my reminder that God wants to be my number one “possession” with everything else taking second place. It is only then that I can honor and serve the Lord in my own life.
I cannot allow myself to be a hoarder in any sense of the word if I want to continue to love God above all else.
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