Where Your Treasure is...
February 25, 2025
Matthew 6:19-21 (ISV) Stop storing up for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal, because where your treasure is, there you heart will be also.
Matthew 6:24 (ISV) No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
Hosea 10:12 (ISV) Sow in righteousness in your own interest reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the Lord, until He comes to pour our righteousness for you
Haggai 1:5- Now this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, says: "Carefully consider your ways: You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don't have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don't have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don't have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes."
What you cultivate you will grow and produce. Sowing to your flesh means sowing and developing your sinful desires. The seeds we sow are linked to our thoughts and actions.
Romans 8:6 (ISV) To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace. That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so. Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.
Walk by the Spirit
Galatians 5:16 (ISV) So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh.
Live by the Spirit and keep in step with the Spirit
Galatians 5:25 (ISV) Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided.
The Bible, God's Word, is our guidebook to life. It is a Spiritual feast of guidance for your life's path. Colossians 3:1 gives a good starting point:
(KJV) If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Seek to despise earthly things and desire those that are heavenly. Find comfort and safety in the One who provides streams of living water to the soul by the influences of the Holy Spirit, through faith in Him.
Immerse yourself in God's Word, praise, worship and prayer and you will sow to the Spirit, reaping the bountiful harvest of everlasting life.