Painting Treasure
Understandably, some treasure paintings as investments or perhaps family treasures
to pass onto children. But before calling in your bid to Sotheby's
for that painting treasure by Picasso or Rembrandt, consider what Jesus said about treasures:"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)
Will you treasure a painting or will you heed Christ and lay up treasure in heaven? If the latter, how concretely can you lay up treasure in heaven?
For $20, people like AsiaHarvest can print and slip 10 Bibles into a nation that bans them, and for every 10 Bibles slipped in, fifty new people on average come to believe in Christ.
For the price of a $200,000 painting, 100,000 Bibles can reach the lost and over half million souls won. That number rises to 2.5 million souls won for the price of a $1 million painting. And for the price of a $100 million painting, 50 million Bibles can reach the lost and a quarter of a billion (that's "b") souls won for Jesus.
So why not forego that Picasso, Rembrandt or da Vinci and instead invest the money in heavenly treasures? If you must have a painting, why not buy one by a young artist that's just as pleasing to the eye but at a fraction of the cost?