Treasure
What’s your “treasure” ? Is it your spouse, your kids, your vehicle, all them guns you’ve been collecting, that motorcycle in the garage, those gold bars you’ve got in that safe … what does your treasure consist of ? Maybe you’ve never given it much thought…you may not consider anything you own worthy to call a “treasure”. Did you ever consider the word, though ? “treasure” … “something of great worth and value”; “a person esteemed as rare or precious”. It’s that person in your life that you would do anything for ( as long as it’s legal 😉 ). You trust em with your deepest thoughts and secrets and you can’t imagine doing life without em. You’d protect em with your life and defend their honor with everything you own. When it comes to assigning the title, “treasure”, to someone or something, it shouldn’t be taken lightly. It also should cause us pause … because when it comes down to it, some of the things we treasured when we were younger, just dont seem to fit that category anymore. Very few things are really worth “treasuring”; amen ? My salvation in Christ would haveta come first ! I mean, my wife…definitely ! My kids and grandbabies; surely ! I have some sentimental things that belonged to my mama…some cards or drawings my kids and grands gave me…my copies of God’s word…our dog…but other than that, I’m not sure I’d consider anything else i own, a “treasure”. Jesus said, “Where your treasure is, there, your heart will be also” ( Matthew 6:21 ). We’ve gotta be careful with what we consider worth “treasuring” and the worth we assign to these things. There’s a fine line that we MUST NOT cross ! GOD spells it out clearly in numbers 1 and 2 of the “original 10 Commandments” … “Have no other gods before me” and “ Don’t make idols out of anything”. If we’re assigning more worth to our “things”, our “jobs/money”, our kid’s activities or even our “family members”themselves, than we are GOD, then we’ve stepped OVER that line. Since God knows our hearts, he also knows what things we consider our “treasures”. We can lie to ourselves and argue differently, but GOD knows … and He ain’t gon’ bless the one that doesn’t put HIM first. You may be blessed by Satan while you’re here on earth, but earth ain’t gon be our final “resting place”. Eternity is gonna be alot longer than the “here an now”! If you feel like God’s blessed you with the things you’re enjoying , and you’re not living to please Him and putting Him first and foremost, don’t automatically feel like it’s from GOD. Satan tried to entice Jesus Himself, with the treasures of this world ( Matthew 4:9 ), so why would he not try the same tactics with you and me ?!? As the psalmist said, “ When yall look around and see what all these others have, don’t be envious of em, for they have all they’re ever gonna have” ( Psalm 37 ). Trust in the LORD and do good; Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart. Committee your way to the LORD; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, and justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him.” ( verses3-7 ) And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For God, who said,” Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this TREASURE in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ( 2 Corinthians 4:3-7 ) “Something / Someone of great value and worth…esteemed as rare or precious.” …. where’s God land on your list of “treasures” ?