Where is your heart and treasure?

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 Where is your heart & treasure?

 


We have always been misguided into thinking that amassing wealth, properties (material possession) will determine our eternal hope. We must work hard to ensure our families are comfortable; necessities catered for and left with a surplus for emergencies. However, we have long thought this was all there is to life. There are three parts of man-spirit, soul and body (Thess. 5:23). It is with our bodies through its five senses that we interact with the things of the material world. Our soul then is where we experience things in the psychological realm. Our soul is composed of our mind, which enables us to think, reason, and remember. Our mind, emotion and will make up our soul. There is a part of us that is deeper than our soul and that is our spirit. It is by our spirit that we contact the spiritual realm. It is through our spirit that God is made real to us and the avenue through which we truly worship Him. "...and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and truth (John 4:24)."


The point I want to bring across is this, where do we place emphasis? I was impelled to think about this more intently after reading Matt. 6:19-21 “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 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." This yuletide season many of us are carried away with celebrations, given ourselves over to gluttony, drunkenness and the like but have we stopped to think if all this revelry profits us. As we reflect, let us ponder these questions:

· Where is my focus?

· Am I unbalanced in terms of catering to the parts of who I am?

· Am I building only my body?

· Are my spirit and soul benefitting from my life?

Our bodies have an expiration date but we will take our spirits into eternity. Store up treasures in heaven by being loving, kind, faithful, peaceful, gentle, and demonstrating self-control. Regardless of what may happen in life, these virtues can remain unshaken, no one can take them away from you, and the moth cannot consume them. If these are our true treasures then we are in a good place. Let us remove the limits and think about our eternal value. If our primary focus is on that which cannot help our souls, then our years would have been wasted.

 

What we treasure most says everything about us

 

By L. Fearon


Comments

  1. Claudia Smith25 December 2020 at 17:18

    Amen

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  2. Roma Pringle25 December 2020 at 17:48

    Amen and amen! This is well needed in such a time as this as this is a season of festivities. I pray that the Body of Christ will be drawn to Christ even the more as He should be the Central Focus of our lives.

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  3. Unknown29 December 2020 at 07:56

    Hmmmmmmm yes Sir! Thank you for this well needed discourse. #HeartsPosture

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