But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:19-24). .We must guard our hearts and watch over them so that our heart follows fully and truly after the things of God and is not distracted by the things of this world.I ask three questions.
1.) “Where is our treasure?” In asking this, we will answer the question “Where is our heart?” because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
2.) “Where is our focus?” What are our eyes focused on? Are they focused on the seen or the unseen?
3.)“Who, or what, are we serving?” Here Christ is surrounded by religious and legalist , Sadducees and Pharisees, men who look very religious on the outside, but who in their hearts are serving money and themselves rather than God. Christ is also surrounded by people who have never heard this kind of radical teaching. Christ is asking us to repent, to change our minds about these things, to live a life of faith, and to serve the one true God.
. In this story in the book of Matthew 19:, it speaks of a rich young ruler, who comes to ask Christ a question. The question he asks is how he might have eternal life. He is told by Christ to keep the commandments this young man takes Christ for a fool for he lies and say I have kept all the commandments from my youth up. His first lie of the day, lastly he is told to give all that he has to the poor and follow Christ. Now here is the test that most of us also fail daily. This young man loved the things he had dearly, so much so that he was blinded and did not see that he had made these things his god and his treasure for he loved them more than God. So he lost the true treasure, which can only be found in Christ Jesus.
Another example of building up treasure in the wrong places, the Word God speaks of another rich man who saw how his crop was going to bring forth a great harvest and decided to build a great barn to stow this harvest in. He felt that after this he would not have to worry or work for a season. But that night his life was demanded of him from God. What do you think he had to answer when God said what did you do with your life that glorified me? If you stood before God how would you answer that question???
If you were Job in one day how would you feel? Would you rejoice and say everything I have is God's anyway? Or would you mourn the lost of your earthly possessions
There was an old lady that loved her car, so much that she requested that she be laid to rest in her car. The sad part is you can't take anything with you from this world except sin, if you have not repented of your sins. Unrepentant Sin is after all how you get to hell in the first place. Short of that it all stays behind and becomes property of the state or possessions of another. So do not build up treasures here for we are here only for a short season and then we must stand before God and give account of the life we have lived here.
What answer shall you give? When ask what did you do with the life I gave you??? Which of my children did you show my love too?
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