Where Your Treasure Is

Where Your Treasure Is

"For where YOUR treasure is, there YOUR heart will be also." Luke 12:34

What is it that YOU treasure most in life? I am not looking for you to give me the answer that I want to hear -- but let's get real, brothers ... What is it that has really grabbed your heart? Is it money? Possessions? Career? Sex? Cars? What is the idol of your heart?

Dr. Henry Blackaby really nails it when he writes: What you value MOST is your treasure. Where you spend YOUR time and money is YOUR treasure. Whatever dominates YOUR conversation is what YOU treasure. What others know YOU for is a good indication of what your treasure is.

Most Christians are quick to claim that God is their first priority. Yet often their actions reveal that their treasure is not God but THINGS OF THE WORLD. Some Christians find it difficult to discuss their relationship with God, but they can chatter easily about their family, friends, or hobbies.

Some find it impossible to rise early in order to spend time with God, but they are willing to get up at dawn to pursue a hobby. Some find it difficult to give an offering to God but readily spend lavishly on recreation. Some boldly approach strangers to sell a product, yet they are painfully timid in telling others about their Savior. Some give hundreds of hours to serve in a volunteer organization but feel they have no time available to serve God.

If you are unsure of where YOUR treasure is, examine where YOU spend YOUR available time and money. Reflect on what it is that you most enjoy thinking about and discussing. Ask your friends to tell you what they think is most important to YOU. Ask your children to list the things most valuable to YOU. It may surprise you to know what OTHERS consider to be YOUR treasure.

Something good to think about as you go about today. Think about it! -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 28; Psalm 46-48; Acts 28

Great Quote: “The true Christian cannot be hid, he cannot escape notice. A man truly living and functioning as a Christian will stand out. He will be like salt; he will be like a city set on a hill, a candle set upon a candlestick. But we can also add this further word. The true Christian does not even desire to hide his light. He sees how ridiculous it is to claim to be a Christian and yet deliberately to try to hide the fact. A man who truly realizes what it means to be a Christian, who realizes all that the grace of God has meant to him and done for him, and understands that, ultimately, God has done this in order that he may influence others, is a man who cannot conceal it. Not only that; he does not desire to conceal it, because he argues thus, ‘Ultimately the object and purpose of it all is that I might be functioning in this way’.” Martin Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount.