WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE YOUR HEART WILL BE.

Treasures are considered those precious things, which rarely come into people’s possession, such that attainment or achievement of these values is a source of happiness. Treasures oftentimes lead us into greater heights, because of the inherent capacity of enrichment and re-endowment. In the face of any treasure, the possessive attitude of the human person can be predicted, such that all attention is geared towards it. The quality of a treasure shapes our “Desire, hopes, commitment, anticipation and value system”. These accounts for the words of scripture “where your treasure is, there your heart will be” cf Lk 12:32-33.
However we must equally remind ourselves that sometimes we loose focus of what is really our treasure. Though they might be precious to us, but they may lack eternal value and deprived of proper orientation.
Another of such problems is that oftentimes, where we lay our treasures might seem not to be “worldly enriching”, thus attitude and spirit of Luke warmness, inactivity and derail from the initial point of our departure begins to wane upon such a person.
Christ in this way encourages us, to keep alive and alight the lamp of action in which we not only anticipate the master, but that his return is the treasury of our joy and eternal solace. His return is not predicted, but the certainty of his return is sure. Thus our interest shall be to bank in the treasure of faith in Christ, a treasure in which moth nor thief is in capable of destroying.
The treasure of the Christian is the goal of reaching heaven and to remain with God. This kind of treasure is not a visible thing, yet it is not an illusive datum of Christian truth. The life and testimony of our fathers in faith, explains this well for us. That Abraham was called and he left his inheritance and other earthly values, for an unknown value. This response today makes him our father in faith. Cf Heb 11:2. The faith reposed in God, has become for many a treasury in which impossible and cases without hope, only became things of the past and possible things with God. Sarah, who was past the age of birth, gave birth at old age, and the host of personal testimonies that we have around us.
Today the invitation is that we begin to lay and consolidate our “Treasure” in Jesus Christ, He is the best of all ‘treasures’. To be rooted in him is the source of our happiness, success and final perseverance. This should mean that we basically re-define our ‘desire, commitment, focus and root’ in him.
Jesus our treasure is not a God who cares less about us, but super-abundantly he justifies this positive anchor we have in him.
The treasury in God, demands from us a persistent anticipation perseverance, fidelity and love. It is this kind of treasure that we should learn to cherish and guide jealously. The jealousy here shows how much we attribute to OUR TREASURE JESUS.