The money trail

If I told you that if walked down a certain road, you would be able to find $20 bills for every ten feet you walked, I can guarantee you would be there immediately and would walk a long ways, probably to the point of exhaustion.
I'm sure you can guess where I am going with this. The illustration is a metaphor of the Christian life. And like it or not, it's a very small picture.  That which we will gain by walking the path of sanctification of far, far greater than a handful of cash. Personally, I think the metaphor is somewhat childish, but still true.  My point in bringing it up is that the truthfulness of the metaphor exposes just how little we actually believe it to be true.  If we truly believed it, our lives would look different.  We would not be drawn away by every shiny bauble the world throws at us.  We wouldn't be wasting so much of our time on such foolishness and distraction.
The fact that we waste so much time shows us where our heart is at.