Devotional: Where Is Your Treasure?
Christian Women's Devotion About Treasure That Has Eternal Value
"For where your
treasure is, there will your
heart be also."
(V: 21)
We cannot store up treasures on earth
as well as
in heaven. We cannot serve God and
mammon
(deceitful riches, money,
possessions,
or whatever is trusted in). (V:
24). Our focus should be on what has
eternal value. The
things we accumulate here
on earth are not lasting
and we cannot take
it with us. We shouldn't concern
ourselves with what we need or
want. God will
always provide for our daily needs—"Give us
this day our daily bread." (V: 11).
That's
easier said than done when you're
struggling
to provide the basic essentials.
It can be a really
anxious time. Especially
when bills are mounting up,
and there isn't
any money to pay them. But I'll tell
you
what, focusing on the 'Kingdom of God' as
our
priority, somehow, some way, all these
other things
are taken care of. God does
provide! As V: 33 says,
"But seek (aim at and
strive after) first of all His
kingdom and
His righteousness (His way of doing and
being
right), and then all these things taken
together
will be given you
besides." So often though, our focus is
on what we have, or rather
what we do not
have, and what we want to get. We
should
rather be focusing on what has
eternal value. Is what
we want to have going
to further the work that God has
for us to do
in the Kingdom of God, or is it for
our
comfort and pleasure here on earth? May
we desire to be
looking beyond the 'temporal'
that is on earth, to the
'eternal' that is in
Heaven. So, where is your
treasure? © By M.S.Lowndes
If then you have been
raised with Christ [to a new life,
thus
sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at
and
seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that
are above, where
Christ is, seated at the
right hand of God. And set your
minds and
keep them set on what is above (the
higher
things), not on the things that are on
the earth. - Colossians 3:1-2 (AMPC).
Lord, help me store
treasures above
Where it will never
decay
Neither shall moth or rust
destroy
Nor its value ever
fade. © By M.S.Lowndes
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