Heavenly Treasure

Scripture: Matthew 6:19-34

Song: A Beautiful Life

What investments will you make today? Today you’ve been given a measure of time and money. You’ll interact with a variety of persons and circumstances. You’ll meet with an assortment of challenges. You’ll face some confrontations, some disappointments, some pleasantries, some serendipity. But what will you make of it all?

All of the components of this day are God’s gifts to you. Forget tomorrow. Forget yesterday. You have today. It’s the only time you have for certain. It’s the only segment of your life with which you can do anything. And the way you spend it depends completely on you. No one will force your hand. You are the steward of what time is yours today.

Time for most people simply slips away. Along with their money, and energy, and resources it slides into oblivion. The only way that time has any lasting value is when you make some heavenly investment with it. When you do that, you freeze a moment of time and it is preserved as an eternal keepsake.

When you decide that this part I’ll give to God in worship, or this portion I’ll spend contemplating His word, or this piece I’ll give to someone who can be encouraged or made more steadfast, you make an entry in history that will outlast all the historical annals and monuments of men. You make a deposit in eternity where rust does not corrupt and where thieves do not break in and steal. So what will you do with today? Will you store up some treasure in heaven?

Jason Moore