Our Treasure

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. 

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.” (Matthew 6:19-23)

What treasures do we store in heaven before we even get there?  Perhaps the best way to answer is to reflect on: “For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” So, where is our heart? Or, better asked, what is the condition of our heart?  Stony, cold, and closed?  Warm and open?  Storing up treasures in our heart means filling up its corners with love to overflowing and through our entire bodies.   

The love in our hearts helps us see clearly.  Otherwise, without love, our lamps – our eyes – are dimly lit, or out.  Therein lies the darkness created by blindness.  We have eyes but they cannot see.  Jesus tells us to strike a match and light our lamps to prevent our stumbling in the dark unable to love and store treasures.

Deacon David Pierce