Matthew 6:21,
21
For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
I had someone say these words to me recently
and it has taken me a few weeks to mediate on them. I suddenly realized that
there is a huge possibility that the main struggle in my life is a direct
result of not fully laying down and giving over my heart to the Lord. It isn’t
as if I have not tracked down this road with God before, I guess I was just
taken back at the fact that even though I have come so far, I still have so far
to go. Why do I have such a hard time FULLY trusting God with everything? What
do I have to gain in believing that I have one ounce of control over this life other
than who I choose to serve and the way I choose to live it?
These treasures are not mine, they are His,
and until I am willing to unleash the tight grip I have over them then I will
not experience the fullness of what this treasure has to offer. I’m exhausted
and frustrated and maybe even a little bitter about it but ultimately I have no
one to blame here but myself.
The Bible tells us over and over again how
we are to live, it’s time we stop applying this only to the areas of our life
that least inconvenience us.
I have been obsessed with time lately, ok
for the past 3 or 4 years. I am often debilitated by the fear of something
happening to these treasures or worried that if I release an inch of them I
will somehow miss out on something. Time is such a tricky thing, it can heal
but it can also fill you with regret if it goes by too fast. I love the verse
that says, “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day
is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day, 2 Peter 3:8”.
Eternity is hard to grasp, isn’t it? What
seems so permanent here is so temporal to God. Living in the fullness of the
Freedom in Christ only becomes a reality when we are willing to lay down the control,
the fear and the distrust…and honestly don’t we have enough to worry about
without carrying around all of that?
Matthew 6:19-21 says, 19 “Do not lay up
for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where
thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and
steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
There are many more things that I could list
here that we harbor up in our hearts. All of them need to be entrusted to
Jesus, it’s unfortunate because it is hard but we can be thankful for it because
there is freedom in that.
If you had a window into the crevasses of your
heart what would you find there? Aren’t you tired of trying to hold onto the slippery
grip of life? Where your treasure is there your heart will be too…where is
yours?
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