Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also

Matthew 6:21  is a very powerful and comforting verse to me. It causes me to ask myself, "Where is my treasure?" The first thing that comes to my mind is my family. I care about them and love them so much and they love me back. Of course my number one treasure is God. You see, He is the one that wakes me up every morning. He is the first person that I speak to. I thank Him for not only waking me up, but for waking up my family as well.


As long as I have God, my needs will always be met. My desires will often be placed before me, but only in His timing and His will. But the main point is, my treasures are in Heaven. We work so hard to have material things, but they are temporary and we cannot take them with us when we die. But if we have a relationship with God, then our treasures are in Heaven, which is eternal. Our treasures in Heaven cannot be destroyed or stolen.


That leads to very important question. "What does a relationship with God look like?" Well first, you must have faith and believe in Him. You must believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and you must believe that the Holy Spirit is God that dwells in us when we are saved. You must acknowledge that you are a sinner and Jesus died for your sins and was raised again to sit on the throne at the right hand of God.


Communication in any relationship is extremely important. By praying and reading God's word, you are in communication with Him. You speak to Him in prayer and He speaks to you in His word.  For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.  Hebrews 12
It is one thing to read the word, and an entirely different thing to apply it to your life and put it into action by obeying His commandments. When we obey God, He blesses us abundantly and sets us up to receive our treasures in Heaven.

Oh, and don't let me forget about trust which ties in with faith.  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen".  Hebrews 11
What does that mean to you?  When we send a package to someone, we have faith in the postal system or UPS and hope that it will arrive at it's destination right?  When the package arrives, we don't see how it gets there but it took our exercise of faith to send it anyways.  So trust and exercise your faith in God that He will keep His promises.  Try Him out and see if He delivers.

No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Prevail---Isaiah 54:17

With everything that is taking place in this world, it's very easy to become depressed or to feel defeated.  Especially if you have been affected by the housing market or if you have lost your job.  Maybe you or a family member has been stricken with illness or you have lost a loved one.  Do not give up or lose heart, God will see you through these times.
God's word gives us answers to everyday problems.  If you do not know God's word, you can and will be deceived by the lies and tricks of the enemy.  You can find yourself believing whatever people say concerning God.  You will end up following the ways of this world rather than God's will. 

In Ephesians 6:13-17, the full armor of God is your protection from the enemy.  We must first gird our loins with truth and put on the breastplate of righteousness.  "Truth" holds everything together & refers to your integrity.  When righteousness is practiced by the believer it protects the chest and heart from Satan.  The "Shield of Faith" is to extinguish the flaming arrows of the evil one and the Helmet of Salvation guards our minds & thoughts.  These are our weapons of defense.  The only weapon of offense is the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

Why do we need to protect our chest & heart from Satan or extinguish flaming arrows of the evil one?  Why do we need to guard our hearts and minds?    We have an adversary who wants to kill, steal and destroy us.  He wants to use men to oppose God's work.  But the devil is a liar and we do not have to be deceived by him.

When Satan tried to tempt Jesus in Matthew 4:8-11 Jesus used scripture as His weapon of defense.  "You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only."  Satan, as the prince of this world was within His rights to make this offer.  Do not love the world nor the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is is from the world. The world is passing away, and also it's lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17

The weapons we fight with are not weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2 Corinthian 10:4  Prayer is also a major and powerful weapon.  Some examples of weapons formed against us are illness, depression, pain and fear.  Believers, we do not give up the good fight but instead we will be victorious with our spiritual weapons.