As I read this chapter, considering all the possibilities for topics, one verse caught my attention, and caused my mind to rehearse a discussion I had Monday evening on a conference call. The scripture is, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Jesus continues on, after dropping on us an undetonated time bomb that seems so simple and obvious and not profound, to contrast a faithful servant and an unfaithful servant; one who, according to Romans 12, proved the will of God, and one who found himself distracted by his own covetousness.
It is not enough to understand and know the will of God; it is up to me to pick the place where my treasure will be. Many times, also, I think we misinterpret this scripture to say, "Where your heart is there will your treasure be," as if to say if we get our heart right our treasure will follow. Jeremiah told us, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jesus said, in my crude interpretation, "pick your treasure and your heart will follow." Our heart has a problem; it is fickle. If we follow our hearts our course will change and we will find our self questioning the will of God. When we find our treasure we will sell everything to buy the field where the treasure is.
As the timer on the bomb ticks to zero, I realize how important it is for me to make Jesus the "Everyday God." Too many times I meet people who say with their lives that He will delay his coming by cutting him out of their careers, finances, relationships, talents, hobbies, etc. His will is that none should perish but that all should repent. Too many people, however, follow their heart which covets something new every day only to find their selves holding a worthless treasure.
I cannot forget that my career, finances, relationships, talents and hobbies are nothing more than tools that are given to me to accomplish the Will of God.
2 Corinthians 4: 1-7 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Jason Mathews
Tuesday
Luke 13
