The estate sale

Many people love to bargain hunt. In doing so, one of the most popular places to find a bargain is at an estate sale. These are the sales in which the complete contents of a house, garage, or workshop are on sale. 

The estate sale is a common occurrence in our society and is commonly held after a person has passed away. As you go through the house, there are mementos of vacations and such like. There are shelves full of little knick-knacks that have been purchased over the years. On the nightstand, there is an alarm clock where it faithfully woke someone to go to work every morning. In the garage, it is filled with well-worn tools used for many years to care for odd jobs around the house. Hundreds of items stored, kept, and cherished that were once thought valuable are now for sale for only pennies.

The estate sale is a reflection of a person’s life work and the gathering of all of those material things. As Solomon writes in the book of Ecclesiastes calls this “vanity” or emptiness. We work so hard to gather up only what will be left one day for others.

The Apostle Paul said he counted his material wealth as dung. The important things in life are not those things that we can hold in our hands but the products of the heart are the possessions that can last eternally.