TSK · Ecclesiastes 3:6

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

Elisha replied,“I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.

So Hazael went to visit Elisha. He took along a gift, as well as forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said,“Your son, King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question,‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Peter began to speak to him,“Look, we have left everything to follow you!”

and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.