where is your heart

Matthew 6:19-23

"Jesus said to his disciples, 'Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys. For where your treasure is, there your also will your heart be."


The greek word for "store up" is thesaurizo which means to accumulate or put in reserve but also can mean metaphorically to live day to day as to increase the bitterness of one's life or increase the happiness of one's life.

Where is your heart? Look around your home, what do you have most of? What does that say about your heart? Is it earth bound or heaven bound?


Look at your time? What is it used for most? Do you walk with and eye to eternal time?


Do you live to increase happiness for yourselves or others or does your existence increase bitterness?

What do you store up?

Often times we seek survival, security, affection, esteem, power, control. Our life revolves around these desires and often heaven gets pushed out of sight and out of mind.

What does your heart ache over? What keeps your heart in rhythm?

Stop, look around, examine.

What is it that moves your heart?
Where is heaven in the big scheme of things? Is it a large portion of your life or does it get the leftovers?

when in doubt just remember the wisdom of my mother: it is in one's best interest not to invest in shoddy goods, rather buy that which will last.