May 2,
2003
WHERE
IS YOUR TREASURE?
"Do
not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay
up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also"
(Matthew 6:19-21, NKJV).
"The
love of money was the ruling passion in the Jewish age. Worldliness
usurped the place of God and religion in the soul. So it is
now. Avaricious greed for wealth exerts such a fascinating,
bewitching influence over the life that it results in perverting
the nobility and corrupting the humanity of men until they
are drowned in perdition. The service of Satan is full of
care, perplexity, and wearing labor, and the treasure men
toil to accumulate on earth is only for a season.
"Jesus
said, 'Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where
thieves do not break in and steal, for where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also.'- It is for your
own interest to secure heavenly riches. These alone, of all
that you possess, are really yours. The treasure laid up in
heaven is imperishable. No fire or flood can destroy it, no
thief despoil it, no moth or rust corrupt it; for it is in
the keeping of God.
"This
treasure, which Christ esteems as precious above all estimate,
is 'the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints'
(Ephesians 1:18). The disciples of Christ are called His jewels,
His precious and peculiar treasure. He says, 'They shall be
like the jewels of a crown' (Zechariah 9:16). 'I will make
a man more precious than fine gold; even a man more than the
golden wedge of Ophir' (Isaiah 13:12). Christ looks upon His
people in their purity and perfection as the reward of all
His sufferings, His humiliation, and His love, and the supplement
of His glory--Christ, the great Center, from whom radiates
all glory...
"Where
the treasure is, there the heart will be. In every effort
to benefit others, we benefit ourselves... At the final day,
when the wealth of earth shall perish, he who has laid up
treasure in heaven will behold that which his life has gained."--Thoughts
From The Mount Of Blessing, pp., 88-91.
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