<p>6:19 <i>L</i><i>aying up in store for themselves a</i><i> good foundation- </i>The Spirit describes our final redemption as our &quot;soul&quot; and &quot;spirit&quot; being &quot;saved&quot;; our innermost being, our essential spiritual personality, who we <i>really</i> are in spiritual terms, will as it were be immortalized (1 Pet. 1:9; 1 Cor. 5:5). This means that our spiritual development in this life is directly proportional to the type of person we will be <i>for evermore</i>. If, for example, we develop a generous spirit now, this is &quot;a good foundation&quot; for our future spiritual experience (1 Tim. 6:19). This is a stupendous conception, and the ultimate fillip to getting serious about our very personal spiritual development. Our mortal bodies will be changed to immortal, Spirit nature bodies according to the Spirit which <i>now</i> dwells in us (Rom. 8:11 Gk.). The attitude which we have to the Lord Jesus <i>now</i> will be the attitude we have to Him at the day of judgment (Mt. 7:23 cp. Lk. 6:46). So the wealthy who give their wealth away are not buying a place in the Kingdom for themselves, but who they eternally will be shall eternally reflect the generous character they developed in this life. In this sense they have 'laid hold' on the eternal life; they have begun to live the kind of life which we shall eternally live.</p><p><i>Against the time to come</i>- They have 'laid up in store for themselves' spiritually, in that the future day &quot;time to come&quot; which in is subconsciously in the mind of all savers, hoarders and folk rich and poor... is going to be revealed as the day of judgment. Those who have given away wealth so that they are left at a real minus, and not simply being generous in ways they wouldn't notice... have laid up a store of wealth for <i>that</i> day.</p><p><i>That they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed</i><i>- </i>God richly gives things to <i>all of us</i>, Paul says; and by our being &ldquo;liberal and generous we thus lay up for ourselves a good foundation for the future, so that we may take hold of the life which is life indeed&rdquo;. &ldquo;The life which is life indeed&rdquo; is not the lower middle class striving-for-security life of slowly saving and occasionally splashing out on something, building, building up, watching the interest slowly grow, worrying about inflation and the possible need for a new boiler or roof&hellip; Much as those things are all part of our human experience in this age, they&rsquo;re not &ldquo;the life which is life indeed&rdquo;. That life begins now, in a counter-instinctive going against the grain of being generous.</p>