Where is your heart

Where is your heart

     “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  
     But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  
     For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
                                                                                          Matthew 6:19-21
Where is your heart in the treasures you have around you or in heaven? I have met many men and women over the years who’ve worked hard and got the nice house with all the nice toys, along with all the bobbles, bangles and beads. At the end of their life however all they have amassed means nothing.
Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with being rich. The apostle Paul writing to Timothy states,
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” 
                                                                             1 Timothy 6:10.
It’s the love of money that can turn us from God and cause us grief.
There is evidence in church history that wealthy men helped fund the young church. They used their wealth in God’s service.
The key when it comes to your treasures is that you don’t put them ahead of God or the Lords service.
I have met many men that say they are Christians but have put in endless hours of overtime that they admitted they didn’t need. They did it so they could buy an up scale car or boat.
In the process of making that extra money, money they didn’t need, they skipped church and any kind of fellowship with God’s people. It proved to me that their heart was in the things of this world.
God and his service should be first in our lives.
I know there are many Christians around the world and even here in North America that need extra money. It’s a sad fact that some companies don’t pay their employees a living wage and that those employees need to work extra hours or a second job to make ends meet.
Still as someone who has been in that situation, I believe we should still put God first. There’s nothing wrong with skipping church occasionally if necessary but it should not become a habit.
God should come first in our lives. We should want to go to church and have fellowship with other believers. When we miss church we should feel at least mildly upset.
I know when I’ve had to miss church I turn to the media, be it television, radio, or internet. I even listened to short wave radio in years past to hear a sermon and worship God.
The media however shouldn’t be replacing going to church and being with other believers. There’s a whole different dynamic happens when we interact in with other believers in church or at a bible study. One that can’t be duplicated by watching things in the media.
So the question becomes, where is your heart?
Please think about it.