TREASURES AND YOUR HEART

Hey gang,

It's your friendly neighbourhood Kingston here....been a long time since we've posted but I was reading this article by Kaycee from Zjam and decided I'd post it. Read and leave a comment on what you think about this and how it speaks to you about what's going on in your life!

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “ Luke 12:34 (NIV)

Sure, we’ve all probably heard this verse many times, but today let’s take a closer look at it. What I want you to do right now is think of where the primary focus of your life is. Is it school? Where you work? Earning money? Relationships? Playing sports? Or is it in something else? What do you spend most of your time doing? What are most of your thoughts about? Honestly, where is your heart?

Wherever your attention is centered, that’s where your heart is. In today’s world, we have to be careful how much time we let things take up in our lives. Too many people get caught up in their work or hobbies, and all their time is spent on those things. Then, there’s no time for anything else, especially God. Their work or desire to achieve consumes their life, instead of having God be the essential motivation and focus.

Mark 12:30 says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength...'” Jesus said this was the greatest commandment. Wow! The supreme, most important instruction God gives to us is to love Him with all that we have and all that we are! God doesn’t tell us to go make money first, and then come to Him. He doesn’t tell us to go do what we think we should, and after that, seek His will. No, He says to love Him with our whole hearts first.

Do the yearnings of your heart line up with the desires God has in His own heart? I encourage you to examine your heart, and let God reveal to you what His desires are, and how you can have the same.