Your Treasure

Good Morning,

Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
"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."

We spoke a bit about the "Holiday Season" in yesterday's message. Appropriately we read another verse of Scripture today that sort of lends itself to a great deal of thought in this season.

Some have called this holiday season we go through each year a "buying season" or "purchase season" or some other "season" that is based almost entirely of the fact that people go sort of crazy in the retail environment. Folks lose their senses and their common sense when they see the green and red decorations, the jolly, fat Santa, and all of the other accoutrements that go along with the enticements to buy!, buy!, buy!!! Yeah, it's my humble opinion that most of our society has simply lost sight of what a "Holiday Season" is supposed to be...and, it goes without saying, just Whom it is that we are even having this season for! But, well, that's another message, isn't it?

What is of major concern for us, Christian believers, is that WE get just about as enticed and caught up in all of the hype as do those who have no belief system and simply do not accept the fact of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. We, you and I and the rest of Christ's followers, should be above all of this foolishness that we see all around us. But, well, we're not above it at all.

So, today, it seems a very fitting time for us to be reminded of where, exactly, our "treasure" ought to be. And, to take it a step further, WHAT our treasures ought to be. I think that this verse of Scripture ought to be permanently etched into the forefront of our brains all the time...but especially during this time of year when we can so easily fall to the wiles of the various sellers of anything but the treasures of God. I'd say we should all tattoo this on ourselves someplace, but I really don't like pain and, although I've not experienced it, I think that tattoos hurt!

I don't think a long, drawn out reasoning is needed today to explain these verses. I think we all know what Jesus was telling us here. Now, it's up to each of us as individuals to remember what and where our true treasures are. It's up to each of us to get beyond what non believing society tells us we should be doing at this time of year. It's up to each of us to resist what the enemy would have us do. It's up to each of us to refuse to go along with the buy, buy, buy mentality that we will be inundated with.

You see, it's up to each of us to remember what Jesus told us, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Love, peace, and blessings,

David