What we treasure

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. – Luke 12.34

What do you and I treasure? What do we go after and pursue and focus our life on? It is easiest to treasure all of the world’s stuff and fun and entertainment and such. An old beer advert said ‘You only going around once in life so grab all the gusto you can.’

The quest for gusto doesn’t just apply to the world though. We Christians can also be caught up in the quest for all the gusto we can grab. We treasure our homes and cars and computers and phones and prestige and our daily comforts. We treasure recognition by men. We treasure ‘success.’ We treasure stuff.

The problem is that when that is what we treasure that is what we are going to go after. That is what is going to drive us.

Why? Because that is where our hearts are.

But what happens when we treasure the heavenly over the earthy? What happens when we treasure the spiritual over the fleshly? What happened when we treasure the invisible over the visible? What happens when we treasure the kingdom of God over the kingdom of men?

Well, first of all it shows where our heart is. When our heart is right we will treasure what is right. When our heart is not right we treasure the things that will one day all be gone.

If people were to judge our heart by what we treasure, what would they see?