This thing about treasure has come up a lot lately.
The last few weeks I have had to ask myself: where is my treasure? Maybe it’s because I’m back in the States for a little while, and I tend to get a bit sucked back into culture, consumerism, etc. Maybe it’s because I see the number in my bank account dwindling. Maybe it’s because I find it really hard to focus and find it easier here to waste time. Or maybe those are just excuses, side effects of an underlying issue…
Jesus wants our hearts-our undivided affection, and He knows that our hearts will be in what we treasure.
We can treasure so many things apart from Christ, things that promise pleasure, security. However, the deception is—that although they provide pleasure, it is momentary. Fleeting. And if they provide security, it is only a false sense of it. Recently, I have struggled with treasuring and trying to find security in the amount of money in our team account and in my own. However, people treasure vanity, or people’s opinion, or climbing up the corporate ladder or a relationship—or anything else in the world.
But anything I treasure apart from Christ will have my heart, and that’s very dangerous.
No one is to blame for this phenomenon but myself.
The issue is that I’m not believing that God really is who He says He is and likewise, that I’m not trusting Him and finding satisfaction and fulfillment in Him alone, the only One who truly satisfies the desires of my heart. Example: I don’t really believe that God is Provider when I don’t wait on Him and try to find ways of supporting myself on my own.
For me, this means that God and I have to honestly consider the condition of my heart on a daily basis. It means allowing Him to search me and know me AND my willingness to embrace my brokenness. BUT, I have discovered that treasuring Jesus and the Kingdom comes more easily when I am falling more and more in love with Him each day. When I’m letting Him love me and giving Him my full heart each day, He becomes and remains my treasure.
He is patient and kind. He loves you and wants to be your treasure. What do you struggle with treasuring apart from Him?
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21
