Where your treasure is

 



What is that one thing that consumes you? What is that one thing that dominates your thoughts, your conversation? When other people think of you, what are you known for?

Jesus said where your treasure is there, your heart will also be. Now he isn’t talking pirate language here and going in a search for treasure on some island with Captain Jack Sparrow. Jesus says that if you really what to know what matters to you, what you place value on is where your heart will be. You will think about, dwell on, and dream about that.

The word for heart here is ‘kardia’; however, Jesus is not referring to the organ that pumps blood around your body to keep you alive. He is talking about your affections.

To treasure, something is to store it up. It is accumulating something for yourself that makes no difference to other people's lives and has no eternal value or weight. It is living for yourself with no thought of those around you. It’s this mode of thinking Jesus is going after.

Our world and the Kingdom have completely contrasting value systems. Our world says to keep it, get more, and get the new one. Jesus says, sell it or give it away. It’s an irrational way of living nearly that is not consumed with this world but consumed with the Kingdom.

Jesus comes along and challenges those in his day and us now with our investment strategy, are we investing in this world or are we investing for eternity. What are you storing up today?

It’s a matter of the heart. As Jack Sparrow once said, “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”.

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be.”

Luke 12:34 CSB

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