What Has Your Treasure?

What has your treasure?

Where does your heart lie?

When you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you think of?

These are questions I feel I have been wrestling with lately. I want my answer to be God, but if I am honest, that is not always the case.

The last few weeks, God keeps reminding me of the verse Matthew 6:21.

Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

It is honestly that simple. Where you place your treasure, worth, time, that is where your heart lies and what quickly becomes your first focus.

Now let me ask you again, what has your treasure? Maybe it is school, your job, that coffee shop, your friends, your family? Take the time, reflect, and find where you first place your treasure.

When you read Matthew 6:19-24, you gain perspective around God’s views of possessions. When we break down our possessions, what is it that we can take to Heaven? The only thing that may enter Heaven alongside us are those who also know Jesus. Which means…

Ding ding ding!

PEOPLE!

If where our treasure is, our heart lies and the only treasure in Heaven becomes eternal life with Jesus and those who love Jesus, I encourage you to give your all and set your treasure in the Kingdom of Heaven through building relationships and spreading the gospel – THE BEST NEWS.

This is not only a challenge for you reading but especially me. The more I grow in my relationship with Jesus, the more I want others to experience the pure JOY and PEACE I feel through the Holy Spirit. I want to set my treasure in building God’s Kingdom and allow my heart to grow in relationship with Jesus and those who know, want, and need to know Jesus.

God has worked so many things in my life together for good. I see my desires continually shifting to align with His desires as I surrender my life to Him DAILY. The community I longed for, of those who are in pursuit of Jesus, has been a growing blessing this past year and as I continue to go through life, I still see God’s hand at work.

To get a little more vulnerable, I have really been struggling on what my next steps look like. All I want to do is step in obedience in God’s call on my life. One of these friends God has blessed me with reminded me of James 4:13-16.

James 4:13-16, “13 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’ 14 Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring – what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes. 15 Instead, you should say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’ 16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Verse 15 specifically states how our lives are in the hands of God and we must trust His will over our own. This semester, I have had to pursue my act of surrender in my future diligently. Ultimately, I know it will work out and God has me where He needs me in this moment, but I consistently want to ensure I am not letting fear lead my life and instead have the courage to walk through the open door and the strength to turn away from the closed door.

1 Corinthians 7:17, “Let each one live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. . .”

I trust that God has me exactly where He needs me in this moment, and He will guide me in His timing to the next position He has for me.

All this to say, no one has everything figured out. The world sets such a high expectation in everyone to know what they want to do with their lives. It creates the perfect environment for fear to rise when we admit a change in desire and a change in the plan. Yet, change is okay because I know that my path is mapped out and planned by the King of Kings.

Who better to guide my life than the one who created it?  

So, I surrender daily over to God. Allowing Him to disrupt my plans, disrupt my will and redirect me towards His will, to grow His Kingdom how He sees fit. I place my treasure with God, I place my FIRST of everyday with God. When God is first, my heart becomes one after the Lord and my desires become transformed in alignment with His.

There is no better place I would want my treasure and heart to lie than with the Father, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords.

I pray that all who read this are met by Jesus where they are at. I encourage all my readers to take a minute and reflect with God. Find what areas you need to surrender over to the Lord in your life. Allow Him to become first in every aspect of your life. Place your treasure in those around you, encouraging one another to seek Jesus, seek the Kingdom of God, and bring others to find the only one who will bring fulfillment, peace, and joy through any circumstance.

Thank You Jesus!

Jesus Loves You :)

Matthew 6:33-34, “33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”