Saturday, June 23, 2012

In Which Bank is Your Treasure?: Matthew 6 Cont'd


cloisters royal gold treasure

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

Picture two banks: The first is well-maintained: gold-trimmed brick, pristine lawn, spotless glass windows while the second one down the road is large and filthy: broken windows, mud at the entrance, replete with shady-looking characters scurrying ashamedly nearby. The first and smaller institution bears a sign that reads: “ALWAYS INSURED” and the second's reads: “SOON TO CLOSE.” The choice of which to trust seems obvious, doesn't it? Yet we and everyone we know choose the second over and over again, even though our investments fall through regularly. There is God's Bank and The World's Bank.

Isn't that Satan's purpose on the earth? To deceive us into treating temporary things as eternal and eternal things as temporary?

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”
Why do we get frustrated in ways that don't always make sense to us? Because we put our hope (and hearts) into things that don't always make sense, that aren't stable. God is the only stability, and we live in a world of breaking sand.

“You cannot serve God and money”

May our hearts be safely focused on Heaven and its eternal riches.

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