For where your treasure is,  there is, where your heart will be. Luke 12:34

What comes first in your life? Those things that your love?  Or something you deem Important, to support what you love. 

People love things.  All kinds of things. Houses, lands, careers, families, and of course themselves.  We love to know that other people love us and hold us in high esteem.  Many people love God, but to place Him before everything else they love.  Not often done.

Whatever you love, that will become a priority, and that is where your heart will be. The Bible states that “We should love the Lord our God with all of our heart and all of our mind and soul.”  When we substitute a priority over our devotion to God, that “thing” becomes a treasure. Priorities can be deceptive.

For example, we place our job as a priority because we believe that it is necessary to take care of our families. Although we may not like the job, we enjoy the financial security it gives- which we greatly appreciate. Hence our priority is now our treasure. To remove the job, would mean that the treasure is gone, and the anxiety of that loss takes over. To maintain and keep our treasures, there will always be anxiety.

Anything that we worship can become a treasure.  The rich young ruler asked Jesus, “What can I do that I may inherit eternal life?  Jesus told the rich young ruler, to “sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come take up the cross and follow me.” The Bible says that the young ruler was sad and went away grieved because he had great possessions.  Mark 10:21.

The young ruler was blind-sighted by his treasures here on earth, in the present.  He didn’t understand that Jesus wasn’t just referring to his present wealth, but Jesus was offering him a better gift.  Not just earthly treasures, but by following Jesus- an eternal treasure.  But the rich ruler’s priorities were in the present. His priorities could not allow him to see the future or to comprehend spiritual things.

We cannot allow our priorities to determine our future or our present situation. Wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be.  Let your treasures be in the Lord.  Then you will have lasting treasures both now and eternally.