Wasting life

You probably don’t know Morris Siegel. 

He was a homeless man that wandered the streets in Los Angeles, California, pushing around a shopping cart. 

One day Morris died the way one expects a homeless person to die. He was found in an alley dead of natural causes. But there was something about him that was different. 

Maybe it was his three bank accounts containing a total of $207,421. 

This man’s dad died 10 years previous to his own death and Morris inherited his father’s money. But he didn’t want it. He didn’t even show up for the ceromoney when the money was handed over. Morris died on Dec. 14, 1989, with three dollars in his pocket and an untouched fortune in the bank.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? It certainly does. But did you know there are so many doing the same thing today. You see, some 2,000 years ago our Heavenly Father ratified His will. He left all His children eternal wealth. 

To this day, many has never claimed this windfall and refused to spend any of it. Lost people shuffle down blind alleys of an empty existence, facing hell for an eternity and ignore the salvation that is promised in Jesus Christ. 

Old Morris lived a wasted life and died a futile death, but I can’t be to quick to point a finger at him. He was only dealing with the temporary, and many of us play the same losing game with the eternal.