“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19-21, NRSV)
This is a verse it seems we do not understand…
It seems to me that we hear this verse as when my life gets right and I align my heart with Jesus, then I will just give. But that isn’t it at all.
Jesus says that this world will steal and destroy our treasure, so we need to put it someplace where this world can not destroy it. We need to put it someplace that will not allow the world to take it away.
We need to give our treasure, because if you want to know where a person’s heart lies, you need only look at their check book record. This will show you where their heart is…
You see Jesus didn’t tell us to get our lives right and then we will start to give, He knows us. He told us that we need to give, and that will make our hearts follow.
Jesus doesn’t expect us to be right before we come to Him, that is why He came. Only Jesus can change the human heart! And only by following Him before we think we’ve made is the way we will change.
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