Ep 67: Worthless Cardboard

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Topic:

• ​What can some old trading cards teach us about what we treasure?

Discussion Questions:

• What do you treasure?
• Do we place more value on the things of this world or the things of the next?

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Episode Transcript

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This is episode 67. Worthless Cardboard.
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
from my childhood. You know, an action figure here,
a comic book there, maybe a trading card or two.
And if you grew up like me in the 90s, chances are you had a
good stash of Pokémon cards. I had a stockpile so I pulled
out my old binder the other day and I was looking for the rare

(01:28):
cards so that I could sell them,but they were nowhere to be
found. I spent weeks trying to figure
out where they could have gone. Had I perhaps been burgled in
the late 90s by some card hungryruffian?
Had I given them away and just forgotten about it?
Or did I hide them somewhere andjust lose them over the years?

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But then I remembered I had an old fire safe in the basement
that I had lost the keys to and I hadn't opened in probably
about a decade. Surely, I thought, that is where
my treasure resided. And the more I thought about
getting that safe open, the moresure I was that great riches lay
inside. After all, some of those cards

(02:09):
sell for thousands of dollars, and I went through the trouble
of keeping them for over 26 years.
Surely by now they're worth a well.
I called a locksmith or two, I tried picking the lock myself,
and eventually I resorted just to drilling it out.
And I was right. The elusive Pokémon cards were
there. But much to my dismay, when I

(02:31):
began to research their value, well, let's just say I'm not
going to be retiring anytime soon.
These things that I had foolishly gotten my hopes up
for, this treasure, these 20 something year old pieces of
cardboard? Relatively worthless.
Certainly they didn't hold the value that I had put upon them,
but isn't that ultimately the truth for all of our worldly

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possessions? And sure, that might be
depressing to us on some level, but the old saying is true.
We can't take it with us. And those things, they are so
fleeting and they just aren't asvaluable as we think they are.
But man, don't we spend so much of our lives obtaining and then
clinging on to them? You know, I held on to those

(03:14):
worthless pieces of paper for almost 30 years, thinking of the
wealth that they might someday bring to me.
And I'm not too proud of this, but I spent a not too
insignificant time mourning the realization of their
worthlessness. And I suppose that makes the
words of Jesus in Matthew chapter 6 all the more

(03:35):
insightful and applicable to ourlives.
Matthew chapter 619 through 21 says do not store up for
yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and
where thieves break in and steal, but store up for
yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust
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.
You see, Jesus knows what's important, what we should truly
treasure, what we should spend our lives seeking and slaving
over, the things that we should cling to.
And it's not some worthless pieces of cardboard or gold or
jewels. It's a home with Him in heaven

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and friends, nothing could be more valuable than that.
Well, those are my thoughts for your Sunday morning drive.
Now it's time to hear yours. And don't forget you can always
give your responses to our discussion questions at
foryoursundaymorningdrive.com. Our discussion questions for
this week are what do you treasure and do you put more

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