Treasures in Heaven
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20
Treasure laid up on earth will not endure, thieves break through and seal; moth and rust corrupt; fire and storm sweep away your possessions. And "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Treasure laid up on the earth will engross the mind to the exclusion of heavenly things.
The love of money was the ruling passion of 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 doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 88, 89)
Reflection: This treasure that we lay up in heaven is nothing we have, or will have, on this earth--as far as material things go. The only thing we take to heaven with us is our character. Character is made of our thoughts and feelings. This character which takes our lifetime to build will in the end be a noble character or an evil one. Today, let's put some character treasure in the heavenly bank.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20
Treasure laid up on earth will not endure, thieves break through and seal; moth and rust corrupt; fire and storm sweep away your possessions. And "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Treasure laid up on the earth will engross the mind to the exclusion of heavenly things.
The love of money was the ruling passion of 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 doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 88, 89)
Reflection: This treasure that we lay up in heaven is nothing we have, or will have, on this earth--as far as material things go. The only thing we take to heaven with us is our character. Character is made of our thoughts and feelings. This character which takes our lifetime to build will in the end be a noble character or an evil one. Today, let's put some character treasure in the heavenly bank.
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