Mat
6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
What do
you treasure in life? Treasure…
The
dictionary tells me the following about treasure-
- Jewels and precious objects.
- Something valuable.
- Somebody highly valued.
I'll ask
again, what do you highly value in life? What is important to you?
You wake
up in the morning and you go about your day to day life and often you hear it
referred to as the daily grind, the daily routine, the mundane. You wake, and
do you follow a routine? Most of us do follow routines after waking up. We have
things we do daily, yes, even on days off from work. A supposed typical day of
life is wake, bathroom activities, get dressed, (some make their bed not all),
get breakfast (again this is a typical and perhaps average day for a person,
not everyone), go to work or school, or set about house keeping/child rearing
duties that are legitimately work and then for those working outside the home
they return home and in between there they may have lunch, then dinner later,
then a lot of people relax in the evening before going to bed. In there
somewhere you may shower some are morning shower takers, other evening. Of
course many details are missing from this description but most people I could
ask the following questions-
What time
do you wake up/go to sleep everyday?
What did
you have to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack yesterday?
What time
do you usually go to bed?
What time
of the day do you take your shower/wash up good?
When do
you brush your teeth, hair?
Do you get
the picture? Our lives are filled with various routines that we seldom do
without. Even our weekends and time off work or out of our normal routines we
will keep to some routines we have taken on as a part of our lives.
What about
your life do you highly value in that day to day routine? Where is your
treasure in life?
Are you
one of the many, many people who find life hard on a day to day basis? Do you
struggle to find value in life? Are you finding it difficult to tell me what
you treasure in your life? The weight of living weighs down on a lot of people
and they can answer in honesty that they don't treasure anything. A lot of people treasure their loved ones,
their family- children, parents, siblings, relatives of various kinds, and
their friends, spouses of course. Some can honestly say they live for their
various loved ones, meaning that life would be very, very hard without that
loved one because their existence is so connected to the other person, or
people, maybe even beloved pets. They find the value of their own life in the
life of another.
When the
Word of God tells us this…Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
The Word
is speaking truth. Where is your heart? Where do place your love?
Luk_18:22
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one
thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Is your
treasure in heaven, is your love in heaven?
Mat_13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which
when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all
that he hath, and buyeth that field.
When we
find the kingdom of heaven (life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior), we
are finding an eternal treasure and we give all that we have to have that
treasure. If we are making God the thing, the One most valuable to us in life-
if our heart is with God, our love with God, then He truly is our treasure.
Does God
have that place in your life? Upon opening your eyes in the morning, and
closing them again at night- is God foremost on your mind because He lives in
your heart and you live for Him and His will? Amid all the day to day routines
we talked about above, is God a part of them? Are you willing to sacrifice
anything and everything, for God? Would you die for Him? And if you'd die for
Him, do you live for Him? Where is your
treasure? Is your treasure in heaven- your hope for the life you know deep down
is a life worthy of living for, in heaven?
If we place our treasures on earth we most certainly will end up without
the treasure of heaven and we will end up losing everything. If we lose
everything we highly regard upon earth, but keep God and our heavenly treasure,
we know that one day all that we placed even the smallest value upon on earth
will be taken care of by God. When we give our hearts to anything upon the
earth, we know we can lose that thing and it can disappear from our lives in a
moment. If we keep God first, giving Him our heart, and from that we extend our
hearts as He wills us to, towards others, then we can know that anything we
lose on earth is a part of God's will for us and one day we will comprehend the
loss, but for now we choose to trust in God's wisdom for our lives- no matter
how painful in any way.
Mar_10:21
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest:
go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Luk_12:33
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a
treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither
moth corrupteth.
The value
of putting our treasure in heaven far exceeds any earthly treasure. If we treasure loved ones before we treasure
God, we do them no favors at all. Only God never fails, we fail time and time
again. God first, others next extending from the love we have from God.
God help
us put our treasures in heaven! Help us value You, LORD above all else. All
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!!!!!!!
Amen.
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