Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them,
saying…
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon
earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
Do you have a single
treasure here on earth right now? A single treasure. We pity those who have no possessions, we
call them poor, we call them destitute, we call them sad and miserable, lowly
and unworthy. We call them bums, homeless, and we pity those who have nothing.
Yet we read this-
Lay NOT up for
yourselves treasures upon earth.
Treasures-
possessions- things that moths can destroy, things rust can ruin, things
thieves can steal..
What sort of things
are those? In truth, almost all things, right?
If you've ever had
your home broken into by a thief you know the damage that can be done to your
possessions. That prized collection of
silverware, the costly clothes and shoes, the jewelry you cherish, the electronics
you love, they are gone, all gone. And
if all our treasured possessions are gone we mourn them, why, because our HEART
is with those possessions.
How much do you
cherish your eternal life? Seriously, do you find joy in the heavenly treasure
you can possess? Or is heaven treasure so vague and surreal, so very intangible
that you seldom think about it, let alone love it, putting your heart with it.
Jesus doesn't want
us to TREASURE the things of earth.
Jesus wants us to
put our TREASURE in heaven.
You most assuredly
cannot put a shoe collection in heaven, in fact you cannot put anything
material in heaven so what does that say? We are NOT to treasure material
things, not a single one. Does that mean
we can't love our family heirlooms passed down over the years and beloved by
great grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers? That we can't love that hand
print in clay that your baby made years ago? That we can't love the pictures of
cherished memories of people long gone now?
Truthfully none of
those things should fill our hearts as much as God, nothing should. Enjoy them all, yet, but they shouldn't have
our HEARTS to the exclusion of our GOD and heavenly treasure. You know that
none of those things can go to heaven with you when you are called by Christ at
His coming. You will NOT take a single thing with you, not one.
We need to think
about that a little bit because just how often do we sin over THINGS that
ultimately have NO meaning at all, in the ETERNAL scheme of things?
I don't think we ask
ourselves nearly enough if this or that matters in the eternal scheme of
things. There is so much as I've said many times before that is TEMPORARY to
ETERNITY. We need to define and make all
those things real as being TEMPORARY to ETERNITY so they aren't holding the
importance that only Heaven should hold for us.
May God help us to
put our HEARTS in heaven with HIM, and not here on anything earthly.
Our love for others
is a HEAVENLY treasure as long as it is love that come from our SAVIOR, a real
love, a godly love.
ALL IN OUR SAVIOR BY
HIS MERCY, BY HIS LOVE, BY HIS GRACE!
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