Entry 7
Where your treasure is…
It is so easy for me, living in a place like New York, to see the trends right as they arise to fame and feel the honest rush in my body to look up the new threads I “need” for this upcoming season, not even realizing that by the time I finally catch a hold of that trend…a new trend has come into style.
Granted, no one in New York *actually* cares what you are wearing and how you are dressing, but it is deffo easy for me to feel that need to keep up.
One night, I became so wrapped up in looking for a pair of shoes online which I was seriously coveting that my husband had fallen asleep while I was deep into my search.
Scripture eventually convicted me once I had realized.
Matthew 6:21 NLT
“Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”
Dang Jesus. You got me there.
We race to compete for the best Instagram aesthetic, the most edgy hair style, more money to gain deeper and crazier experiences, better cars, better jobs. Hustle culture can get a little icky in this way among many others.
But where is our heart? Where or to whom do we give our upmost and fullest attention?
The human heart for a long time has been associated with emotions and pleasures; with this, it opens the door to ponder the question of what is holding captive our deepest emotions, our most abundant pleasures?
“Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.”
If my eyes are fixated on Christ and eternity with Him, my emotions and pleasures will begin to overflow with fruit based off of my fixation toward my relationship with Jesus Christ. HE is what we begin to desire.
When His goodness, and His glory becomes the first and purest desire of our hearts, that is where we will initially find our treasure.
The scripture prior to Matthew 6:21 goes on to say,
“Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal,” (Matthew 6:19-20)
Jesus makes it clear in saying this that when we store our treasures in the wrong place, it leads to our hearts being in the wrong place.
What we treasure most can become our controller.
He calls us to live in total, utter peace with what He gives us because we are called to choose eternal values over the earthly ones.
Where are our hearts today?
