Message from Scripture: 7/20/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today comes from Matt. 6:21; “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

 

What is important in your life to you? What happens that will make you drop everything and focus on it as your primary concern? What activity gives you the greatest delight? When it comes to spending habits, what do you set aside funds for to have, or engage in? In other words, as Jesus asked, what is it you treasure most in your life?

 

For us as Christians, it should be the spiritual. We should never get enough of our time in learning from Scripture, from spending time communicating with God in prayer, in building each other up in our common salvation, in encouraging each other so we stay centered on eternity and not the temporal.

 

It’s interesting how we fill up our schedules with all kinds of activities and pursuits, and then expect God to understand we don’t have any time for Him, when we were the ones who set our schedules to begin with! We all have the same number of hours in our days; it’s how we use them.  We should make sure God comes first, is an integral part, in all we do.

 

When it is so easy to get distracted by the appeal of the world around us, how do we treasure the spiritual above everything else? We must remember there is a day of judgment approaching for us all. What will our missed opportunities mean to us then?  How important will those activities we pursued be then? If we honor ourselves and other people or things above God, how will we respond to that when we give account of our life choices then?

 

Today, let us go out and serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, living our lives and using our influence for what does not perish, but lasts forever. God bless.

 

Robert