Show me your treasure, and I’ll show you where your heart is. Matthew 6:21 (TKNT)
Heaven On Earth – Sermon on the Mount Series – Part 10
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“Don’t store up treasures on earth. Moths and rust will eat it away, and robbers will break in and steal it. No: store up for yourselves treasure in heaven! Moths and rust don’t eat it away there, and no robbers break in and steal it. Show me your treasure, and I’ll show you where your heart is. The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is honest and clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is evil, your whole body is in the dark. So, if the light within you turns out to be darkness, darkness doesn’t come any darker than that. Nobody can serve two masters. Otherwise, they will either hate the first and love the second, or be devoted to the first and despise the second. You can’t serve both God and wealth.” Matthew 6:19 – 24 (N.T. Wright’s “The Kingdom New Testament Translation”).
PRACTICE: INVEST IN GOD’S KINGDOM.
You keep things in the fridge. But your hope isn’t that one day you’ll live in the fridge to eat what you put there. You have money in a bank. But you don’t hope that one day you’ll move to the bank to enjoy what you saved. In the same way, we are to store up treasures in heaven, but our hope isn’t that we’ll go to heaven to enjoy them. No. The Christian hope is that heaven is coming here.
So, invest in what looks like God’s future; heaven on earth. The returns on that are eternal.
I live at First Home Project with 17 recently arrived refugees. My mortgage isn’t with a bank. I pay my mortgage back to 21 people who stored up treasures in a new future for vulnerable people. I can’t think of a more beautiful example of what Jesus is saying here. Jesus doesn’t say ‘you shouldn’t serve God and money,' he says, “You can’t.” Praise God that First Home Project exists because people served God and invested in people instead of serving money and merely investing in the market.
How can you deepen your investment in God’s Presence coming to earth?
PRAYER: Lord, we confess we are idolatrous, and we seek to serve both you and Mammon. Deliver us that we might invest in the Gospel, in the poor, in your people, that above all things we’d seek your kingdom and your healing justice. Amen.
Contributed and Written by: Jarrod McKenna
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